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Campus & Community
Actor John Lithgow to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Award-winning actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, is the recipient of the 2017 Harvard Arts Medal, which marks the opening of Arts First at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A pudding pot for Ryan Reynolds
Hasty Pudding welcomes ‘Deadpool’ actor Ryan Reynolds as its Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
Honoring the Crimson line
Harvard officials, staff, administrators, faculty, alumni, and students stood alongside alumni veterans and active servicemen and -women at a reception at Pusey Library for an evocative exhibition that traces the interwoven histories of two of the country’s oldest institutions: Harvard and the U.S. military.
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Health
Playing catch-up on marijuana
The Gazette speaks with the Medical School’s Staci Gruber, who thinks that state marijuana legalization policy has run ahead of science.
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Science & Tech
The unsettling chemicals around us
There are thousands of unapproved chemicals, often banned elsewhere, in the U.S. environment, panelists at a Harvard forum say.
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Science & Tech
Inaugural DataFest reflects a growing interest
The inaugural session of the Harvard DataFest conference brought attention to Harvard’s growing interest in data science.
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Science & Tech
A revised portrait of psychopaths
A study suggests that while psychopaths do feel regret, however, it doesn’t affect their choices.
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Campus & Community
Queries, and support, on travel concerns
Town hall session outlines Harvard’s programmatic safety net for community members during this period of tightened immigration.
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Nation & World
Sizing up Gorsuch on style, substance
Law School scholars react to President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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Science & Tech
Adaptive learning featured in HarvardX course
A course featuring adaptive learning explores the technological feasibility, implications, and design of such a system to improve massive open online courses.
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Nation & World
Pursuing veritas in a ‘post-truth’ era
Top reporters and editors discuss the future of news, as well as the opportunities and the challenges the industry faces in what many observers call the “post-truth” era.
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Arts & Culture
A vocal stand
Harvard Choruses will join a performance of Grammy-winning composer Craig Hella Johnson’s “Considering Matthew Shepard” Feb. 5 at Symphony Hall.
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Arts & Culture
Novelist Perrotta headlines LITFest
Novelist Tom Perrotta, who headlines Harvard’s LITFest on Feb. 4, talks with a television co-writer and a Harvard instructor about the craft.
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Campus & Community
Working in the service of others
The sixth annual Public Interested Conference brought together nearly 150 Harvard alumni who shared their experiences in the public service sector.
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Nation & World
Neil M. Gorsuch ’91 nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court
Neil M. Gorsuch, a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS), is President Donald Trump’s pick as the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, it was announced Tuesday night.
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Nation & World
Fraught moment for religious freedom
A Divinity School conversation focused on religious freedom in the wake of President Trump’s executive action on immigration.
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Campus & Community
Adding security at Harvard
Harvard encourages computer users to watch out for and report phishing expeditions, which are increasing.
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Campus & Community
Finding comfort at home and here
A Harvard undergraduate who now calls two coasts home learns to bridge the 3,000-mile gap.
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Campus & Community
My 21 years in Cambridge
A Harvard undergrad reflects on leaving home, but staying put.
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Science & Tech
Drawing the eye to extinction
A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History brings an artist’s view to the ongoing extinction crisis affecting the planet.
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Campus & Community
First you see, then you see again
See Harvard through a collection of double exposure images, where iconic elements of the University campus overlap and converge in surprising ways.
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Campus & Community
Trials for a global university
With travel to the United States temporarily banned from some Muslim-majority nations, Harvard officials and students are rallying to support members of the global University’s international community.
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Arts & Culture
Prescribing art in medicine
A Wintersession course studied compassion and suffering through the lenses of dance, music, and science.
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Campus & Community
Women’s basketball gets expert advice — and they win
President Drew Faust and College Dean Rakesh Khurana were on hand, and were named honorary coaches, at Harvard women’s basketball game victory.
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Health
Where lead lurks
A Harvard Chan School researcher has launched a website to connect citizens with data on the water coming through their taps.
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Campus & Community
Sifting data, seeking justice
Paola Villarreal, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, is using data visualization to shed light on inequality in health, housing, and more.
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Campus & Community
Humanities and science come together at conference
The sixth annual National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC), considered the largest student-run undergraduate research symposium in the nation, brought an estimated 200 undergraduates from across the U.S. and abroad to Harvard’s campus Jan. 19–21.
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Arts & Culture
Shadows of Cuba’s past
An exhibit by Cuban mixed-media artist Juan Roberto Diago at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery folds history into imagery.
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Arts & Culture
What’s in a (scientific) name
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is taking on names — both common and scientific — together with companion institutions in a series of new installations that introduce the public to the color and complexity of appellations.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2017–18
HUH 2017–2018 market rents will increase 3 percent on average across the 3,000-unit portfolio relative to last year’s rents, although within the portfolio rents on some units have been adjusted up or down based on current market conditions.
