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Arts & Culture
History in the making
A new collection of materials donated to Harvard Library from the José María Castañé Foundation is keenly focused on major conflicts and transformative events of the 20th century, including the Russian Revolution, the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Cold War.
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Arts & Culture
Images to act on
Kellie Jones, an associate professor in art history and archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, discussed “Civil/Rights/Act: Art and Activism in the 1960s” as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois colloquia this fall.
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Nation & World
Learning about learning: Creating a connection
A newly integrated HarvardX and HILT research effort will probe residential and online learning, and the places in between.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Harvard President Drew Faust
Harvard President Drew Faust sat down with The Gazette recently to discuss the University landscape for the coming academic year, including Harvard’s priorities for 2015-16 as well as some of the challenges ahead.
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Nation & World
MOOCs on the move
As MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital via HarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.
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Arts & Culture
A wall of color, a window to the past
Curious visitors who turn left off the Harvard Art Museums’ elevators on the building’s fourth floor are greeted by the Forbes Pigment Collection, a floor-to-ceiling wall of color compiled from about 1910 to 1944 by the former director of the Fogg Museum.
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Campus & Community
Harvard hosting HUBweek
As one of four sponsors, Harvard will be a major player in HUBweek, hosting 18 presentations celebrating Boston area innovation.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 16
On Sept. 16 the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the fall term of 2015 and a Parliamentarian for the spring term of 2016. They also heard a presentation on the General Education review.
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Campus & Community
Remembering James Rothenberg
Harvard President Drew Faust and William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, invite the community on Sept. 26 to celebrate the life of the late James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70.
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Health
‘Achilles’ heel’ of sickle cell disease?
Gene-editing study reveals pathway that could help short circuit sickle cell disease.
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Arts & Culture
Out of the blue, strokes of brilliance
A phone call last month led to the acquisition of Corita Kent prints at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.
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Health
Keeping an eye on screen time
With parents and kids in back-to-school mode, refocusing on the daily demands of homework, sports, and activities, time spent staring at a screen comes at a premium. Steven Gortmaker, professor of the practice of health sociology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been studying how we have used and sometimes abused…
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Science & Tech
Paris as a living thing
During a summer program, Harvard students and their French counterparts drew on biology to sketch solutions to everyday problems in Paris.
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Health
Genetic sleuthing
An international team of researchers led by Harvard’s Pardis Sabeti have sequenced the genomes of hundreds of samples of Lassa fever and are using that data to try to unlock the virus’ secrets.
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Campus & Community
‘It’s a balancing act’
Luis Viceira, Harvard Business School professor and investment management expert, discussed the University’s endowment and its impact on Harvard, as well as the tricky balance among spending, inflation, and investment risk that fund managers wrestle with daily.
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Arts & Culture
Weighed down
Harvard anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh’s new book, “Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat,” delves deep into the national obsession with thinness.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, died in Cambridge on Sept. 13 after a long illness. He was 86.
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Health
Filling a void in stem cell therapy
New porous hydrogel could boost success of some stem cell-based tissue regeneration, researchers say.
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Arts & Culture
Roman history, trowel by trowel
A Harvard undergrad learns by doing, digging through a Roman historical site during a summer excavation program.
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Health
Bringing global health home
The world is smaller than ever when it comes to infectious disease, a fact that means people have more at stake than ever before in each other’s health, speakers said at a symposium marking the fifth anniversary of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
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Nation & World
That first draft of history
Longtime CBS News reporter and now Shorenstein Center Fellow Bob Schieffer reflects on his 50-year career covering politics.
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Health
Short lunch periods don’t serve students’ needs
While recent federal guidelines enhanced the nutritional quality of school lunches, there are no standards regarding lunch period length. Many students have lunch periods that are 20 minutes or less, which can be an insufficient amount of time to eat, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
A gift for public service
New Mindich programs will support Harvard College students’ efforts to help others through public service.
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Campus & Community
Harvard IT gets a reboot
Harvard is rolling out state-of-the-art computer upgrades for student record-keeping, faculty teaching, and community security.
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Health
Why MS symptoms may improve as days get shorter
By first looking broadly at possible environmental factors and then deeply at preclinical models of multiple sclerosis (MS), a BWH research team found that melatonin — a hormone involved in regulating a person’s sleep-wake cycle — may influence MS disease activity.
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Campus & Community
Where design, engineering meet
The Harvard Graduate School of Design and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will jointly offer a new degree at the intersection of their disciplines. In a Q&A session, the two deans outlined what’s ahead.
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Campus & Community
Finding the classes that fit
Shopping Week gives students a chance to make more informed decisions about their classes and schedule.
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Nation & World
Straight dealing
As Congress prepares to vote on a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program, Harvard Kennedy School experts consider its merits and shortcomings and look to what’s next.
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Nation & World
The Venice connection
Collaborative summer study program between Harvard and Venetian university marks its 10th year.
