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Nation & World
Exiled Belarus opposition leader calls for unified EU, U.S. support
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says the fights in her homeland and Ukraine are linked by desire for democracy and independence from Russia.
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Campus & Community
Mikhail Lukin named University Professor
A pioneer and leader in quantum science and quantum computing, Mikhail Lukin will hold the Friedman University Professorship.
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Arts & Culture
Blueprints for a live event
At Harvard, cultural historian Harvey Young and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins shared their views on how the arts had changed and what the state of the arts are now.
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Health
Patients prefer bad news to no news
Patients who access test results through an online portal account overwhelmingly supported receiving the results immediately — including abnormal test results — even if their provider had not yet reviewed them, according to a recent survey.
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Health
Researchers find key to healing muscle injuries in elderly
Controlling inflammation enables injured aged muscle recovery, offering promise for the future of mechanotherapies.
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Campus & Community
Confronting misconduct, strengthening culture
Harvard Chief Diversity Officer Sherri Charleston and Deputy Provost Peggy Newell discuss implementation of new anti-bullying and nondiscrimination policies.
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Nation & World
‘In eye of hurricane’
“Mexico + H2O = Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities” two-day conference (March 23-24) brings Mexican Indigenous activist Mario Luna Romero to Harvard.
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Health
Cancer surgery linked to increased risk of suicide
In a study of U.S. patients who underwent major cancer operations, the incidence of suicide was significantly higher than that observed in the general population.
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Nation
Social Security, Medicare far from doomed, policy expert says
Policy expert Louise Sheiner of Brookings Institution puts the panic over the latest projections in perspective.
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Arts & Culture
Why ‘The Exorcist’ is really more of zombie thing
English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.
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Campus & Community
Tom Hanks named Class of 2023 Commencement speaker
Tom Hanks will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 372nd Commencement on May 25.
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Health
20 years post-invasion, many Iraq veterans haven’t found peace
Harvard doctor who directs Home Base health program details experiences treating “invisible wounds,” including efforts to keep patients from isolating.
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Campus & Community
Sense of being where she’s meant to be
As a prospective college student in 2002, Naree Song received letters of interest from the golf programs at all Ivy League schools — except Harvard. Today she is Harvard’s head coach for the women’s golf team.
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Health
William Hanage on COVID lessons we haven’t learned
Harvard epidemiologist looks back and ahead.
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Health
Molecular component of caffeine may play role in gut health
Researchers zero in on molecular component in caffeinated foods such as coffee, tea and chocolate.
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Nation
The rats are gonna hate this one too …
Alum explains why being NYC sanitation commissioner is a dream job — if you care about delivering essential services.
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Arts & Culture
Are drill musicians chronicling violence or exploiting it?
Rappers, activists, scholars debate controversy surrounding subgenre of hip-hop.
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Nation & World
Why China has edge on AI, what ancient emperors tell us about Xi Jinping
Recent event examines what social sciences can tell us about rising economic, geopolitical power.
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Campus & Community
Raising awareness of prison doulas
Senior Chloë LeStage hopes that her thesis dedicated to the work of prison doulas will help others learn of their crucial mission.
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Work & Economy
High point for market fundamentalism? Would you guess Clinton?
Naomi Oreskes traces the decadeslong campaign to get Americans to put their faith in free market as a force for positive change over government.
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Work & Economy
More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers says regulators have significant tools at their disposal, need to be vigilant of specific vulnerabilities.
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Health
Faster, fitter?
Not really, says Spaulding Rehab expert. When you go for a walk, focus on this instead.
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Nation & World
Prospect dim for Biden plan to bolster Medicare, health policy expert says
President Biden’s budget highlighted the projected Medicare shortfalls and proposed a solution, almost certainly dead on arrival in the Republican-held House. Health care policy expert John McDonough takes a look at what’s real and what’s politics.
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Work & Economy
Bailouts for everyone?
Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, a former Federal Reserve Board member, explains the fallout from the bank failures and how they could complicate the Fed’s efforts to curb inflation.
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Health
Strong evidence that yoga protects against frailty
A review of 33 studies found that yoga improved known predictors of longevity, including walking speed and leg strength.
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Science & Tech
Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity
Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.
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Nation
Talking with kids about existential threat of climate change
Climate change talk may ignite fears for children, guilt for parents, but focusing on solutions may be the key, experts at HGSE webinar say.
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Nation & World
The art of self-healing
“There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”
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Arts & Culture
What set them off were the bodies on wall
“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, M.A. ’62, whose speculative fiction about women and power has made her both a beloved feminist icon and a repeated object of censorship, returned to Harvard to speak at Sanders Theatre.
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Nation & World
New day for Afro-Latin American Studies
The University Consortium for Afro-Latin American Studies will bring together researchers from Global North and Global South, something that has never been done before.
