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Arts & Culture
The sacred in Harry Potter
Two graduates and a student of the Divinity School have found an audience with their podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text,” about reading the famous series through a spiritual lens.
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Health
Finally, hope for a young patient
A gene therapy trial points to a healthier future for a young patient suffering from a rare immune disease.
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Campus & Community
William Kaelin wins Lasker Award
Harvard Medical School Professor William G. Kaelin Jr. was named the winner of the 2016 Lasker Award for Medical Research, America’s most prestigious biomedical award. He was honored for his work in the root causes of cancer.
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi honored at Harvard
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was the general secretary of the newly formed National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar in 1990, will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2016 Harvard Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on Sept. 17.
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Arts & Culture
The director and the whistle-blower
Filmmaker Oliver Stone tells a Kennedy School audience how he came to make a film about the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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Health
Clues to how ‘super-agers’ retain young memories
Researchers examined a group of older adults with extraordinary memory performance and found that certain key areas of their brains resembled those of young people.
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Campus & Community
Deeper creativity
New Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey talks about his goals for the division.
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Nation & World
Want to thwart criminals? Take away their cash
In his latest book, “The Curse of Cash,” Ken Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, argues that the elimination of big bills could help stem crime and even aid countries trying to rebound from financial collapse.
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Arts & Culture
A prize of a weekend
The 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes brought leading lights from journalism and the arts to Harvard to reflect on accountability and the abuse of power.
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Arts & Culture
LGBTQ Film Series lets ‘Baby Daddy’ creator do the talking
Actor Alec Mapa’s most recent project, “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” will be shown on Sept. 14 at 114 Mt. Auburn St. as part of Harvard’s LGBTQ Film Series.
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Arts & Culture
Words aimed at action
Author Terry Tempest Williams is the guest speaker at the Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center, a new initiative convened by Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey and history Professor Ian J. Miller.
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Campus & Community
At HUBweek, ideas for living
With a wide array of events at the intersection of science, technology, arts, and ethics, HUBweek returns to Boston for a second year. Harvard, one of HUBweek’s founders, will host 14 of the 115 events.
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Campus & Community
Youngsters find learning never slows down at the Ed Portal
As part of the first-ever Summer Explorations program at the Harvard Ed Portal, students enriched their learning experience. The program helps halt summer learning loss, which many experts say is a key step in closing the achievement gap.
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Campus & Community
OpenScholar: A Harvard invention
OpenScholar is a Harvard invention that is helping researchers at home and around the world.
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Nation & World
From captivity to classroom
Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned for 543 days by Iranian authorities before the U.S. government negotiated his release in January in tandem with the Iran nuclear deal, joins the 79th class of Nieman Fellows this fall. His wife, Yeganeh, is a Shorenstein fellow.
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Science & Tech
What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030
“Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030” is the first product of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100).
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Nation & World
Examining U.S.-Mexico ties in the age of Trump
Harvard’s expert in Latin America, Davíd Carrasco, spoke with the Gazette about Mexico, which has taken center stage in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and the long relationship between the two neighboring countries.
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Science & Tech
Asteroid mission will carry student X-ray experiment
At 7:05 p.m. (EDT) today, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft’s five instruments is a student experiment that will use X-rays to help determine Bennu’s surface composition.
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Campus & Community
New Harvard fellowship puts public service in spotlight
The College’s new Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship will create paths to meaningful public service opportunities in Boston City Hall.
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Health
A cinematic approach to drug resistance
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have built a giant petri dish to visually demonstrate how bacteria move as they become immune to drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the challenge
Four Harvard students were among the finishers of the famed Leadville Trail 100 Run, a 100-mile race through the mountains of Colorado.
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Arts & Culture
Smith gives voice to broken promise
Anna Deavere Smith is back at the American Repertory Theater with a one-woman show aimed at failures in the U.S. education system.
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Nation & World
Celebrating the Pulitzers at 100
Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward says the work of the watchdog press is “never sufficient.”
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Health
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease passes key preclinical test
A precision-engineered gene therapy virus, inserted into blood stem cells that are then transplanted, markedly reduced sickle-induced red-cell damage in mice with sickle cell disease, researchers from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Health
From leaf to itch
Harvard researchers have riddled the role of a molecule key to eruption of the torturous blisters as well as an antibody that interrupts the inflammatory response, opening the way to potential relief for careless hikers.
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Campus & Community
Artful balance
Profile of George Li as part of a new series on the impact of humanities studies in and out of the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Lending his eye to the visions of others
The Carpenter Center’s Robb Moss devoted some of his summer to helping fellow filmmakers realize their dreams.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Aug. 31
On August 31 the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2016–2017, and discussed the work of the Council in the new academic year.