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Science & Tech
A 14-year incubation
Sam Wattrus ’16, Ph.D. ’22, becomes the first human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator to establish an independent research lab.
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Nation & World
Do phones belong in schools?
Banning cellphones may help protect classroom focus, but school districts need to stay mindful of students’ sense of connection, experts say.
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Nation & World
Not-so-innocent bystanders
Géraldine Schwarz discusses her memoir, “Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe,” with Abadir Ibrahim and Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law School event.
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Campus & Community
Mayors get personal over coffee and eggs
Michelle Wu, Sumbul Siddiqui were the featured guests at Harvard basketball coach’s monthly power breakfast.
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Campus & Community
‘To understand the world but also to change the world’
Arthur Kleinman pays tribute to beloved student with new class that explores wide-ranging intellectual contributions of Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer.
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Campus & Community
‘One of the best traditions of all time’
First-years are welcomed to their new homes with traditional displays of House pride.
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Nation & World
Russia seems vulnerable. Is Putin?
Russian historians, political and cultural analysts assess the strength of President Vladimir Putin’s regime since the war in Ukraine began, and lay out what could be in store in 2023.
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Campus & Community
Anthony Gervin Oettinger, 93
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Anthony Gervin Oettinger was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Howard Curtis Berg, 87
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Howard Curtis Berg was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Ophelia Dahl to receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
Ophelia Dahl will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 26, honoring her work advancing global access to health care and championing rights of the poor.
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Science & Tech
Why we need female mice in neuroscience research
Researchers found that female mice, despite ongoing hormonal fluctuations, exhibit exploratory behavior that is more stable than that of their male peers, countering the belief that the hormone cycle in females causes behavioral variation that could throw off results.
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Nation & World
Dad’s clueless, Mom’s fried. Maybe there’s a better way.
Harvard grad who wrote “Fair Play” explains the perception gap between moms and dads highlighted by new Pew study.
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Campus & Community
HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history
The HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library will work together to deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives.
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Health
Evolution hurts sometimes
The same skeletal changes that allowed humans to walk upright make us vulnerable to knee osteoarthritis as we age, human evolutionary biologist says.
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Campus & Community
Random roommates turned best friends
Harvard students who’ve entered housing lottery solo have a reassuring message for first-years: You just might find your best friend.
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Arts & Culture
Deep roots of multicultural American art
New Harvard Art Museums show explores interactions between European, Indigenous, and African civilizations in works from Spanish Empire.
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Arts & Culture
Time for homework. Where’s my Nintendo Switch?
Games have inspired dozens of movies and TV shows recently. A new English class studies growing critical scholarship on the subject.
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Health
Study signals heart trouble for young adults
Researchers find hypertension, diabetes, and obesity worsened across the board in study group of people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, with racial and ethnic disparities present.
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Health
Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it
Anxiety and depression top parental concerns about their children, a Pew survey finds. Harvard experts offer advice.
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Arts & Culture
‘That’s not how the story went’
Novelist Joshua Cohen and professor James Wood discuss the creation of Cohen’s book, “The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family.”
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Health
Torn muscle? Send in the gut microbes for rapid repair
A Harvard-led study shows that the gut microbiota acts as the training camp for a class of immune cells that are recruited to heal muscle injury.
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Health
Using AI to target Alzheimer’s
In a recent study, a deep learning model tested on tens of thousands of routine brain scans spotted disease risk with 90% accuracy.
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Science & Tech
How does infection change social behavior?
A new study illuminates the way pathogens — and pheromones — alter social behavior in animals.
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Work & Economy
How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?
Book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of how Americans came to trust markets more than government.
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Nation & World
Why police resist reforms to militarization
Jessica Katzenstein, an Inequality in America fellow, has been analyzing police militarization in an effort to show how and why departments are resisting changes and the ways this resistance is not as straightforward as it’s often portrayed.
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Science & Tech
Seeking clues to how shifting climate may change ocean ecosystems
By studying the fossil record of one group of organisms, researchers now worry that human-driven climate change may return us to an “Earth of 8 million years ago … detrimentally restructuring the marine communities of the entire ocean.”
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Health
Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates
Harvard experts on law and policy say originalist view used to overturn Roe could upend the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that requires a minimal standard for inmate health care.
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Health
Women are 20% more likely than men to refuse statins
New study finds 1-in-5 patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease decline statin therapy with women being 20 percent more likely to refuse it when first suggested and 50 percent more likely than men to never accept the recommendation.
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Science & Tech
What Harold McGee learned after decade of sniffing durian, keyboards, outer space
Science author Harold McGee explores all things olfactory in “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.”
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Health
Low-carb diet can help manage progression of Type 2 diabetes
A Harvard study found that a plant-based low-carbohydrate diet was tied to a reduction in overall, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality among people with Type 2 diabetes.
