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Health
Subvariants cause for alarm, hybrid immunity hard to beat
Harvard scientists give their read on recent COVID data from the U.S. and South Africa.
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Campus & Community
Mayor Michelle Wu named Class Day speaker
Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”
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Campus & Community
Drum roll: Arts First returns live
Annual festival of campus creativity to feature theater, dance, music, spoken word, interactive art over four days.
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Campus & Community
Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act
University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.
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Campus & Community
Risk rewarded
Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.
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Campus & Community
Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Campus & Community
Lewis, Ong named Carnegie Fellows
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Jonathan Corpus Ong were named Andrew Carnegie Fellows today.
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Campus & Community
Victory of perseverance, vision over more than decade of challenges
Being able to rebound when life throws up obstacles is nothing new for undergraduate Kimberly Woo, whose road to graduation has been filled with challenges.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to transition to voluntary COVID testing
Coronavirus Advisory Group cites low campus rates of severe illness, hospitalizations, and a shift in pandemic phase.
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Nation & World
How war in Ukraine is reshaping global order
Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2013 to 2017, discusses how the conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order.
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Nation & World
Power of photography
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.
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Science & Tech
Way forward on climate change
The panel of experts looked at success and failures since the first Earth Day in 1970.
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Campus & Community
More than just another brick in a wall
The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.
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Health
Snapshot of pandemic’s mental health impact on children
Psychiatric epidemiologist warns crisis too recent for conclusive results but shares some surprising, troubling early indications.
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Science & Tech
Relocating farmland to cut carbon emissions amid warming world
Reimagined world map of agriculture could turn back clock 20 years on carbon emissions.
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Science & Tech
6 things to know about Earth
Andrew Knoll, Harvard’s Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and author of the recent popular science book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” shares six facts about the Earth.
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Health
It may be increasingly legal, but it doesn’t mean cannabis is safe
Neuroscientist says the jury’s still out on effects on neurodevelopment of fetuses, teens.
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Campus & Community
How consequential life grew from dying heart
For soon-to-be Harvard graduate, his medical career is personal, and a way to give back to a system that saved his life.
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Campus & Community
Four to be honored with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Avarita L. Hanson ’75, William F. Lee ’72, Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, and Tom Reardon ’68 will receive the 2022 Harvard Medal.
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Health
In Alzheimer’s victims, somatic mutations are both more and different
A new study by Harvard-affiliated researchers finds that patients with Alzheimer’s disease have both more and different somatic mutations — alterations in DNA — in their brain cells than people without Alzheimer’s disease.
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Nation & World
Learning how to talk about divisive issues
Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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Health
Infertility linked to increased risk of heart failure in women
A new study finds that a woman’s history of infertility is associated with increased risk of heart failure.
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Science & Tech
Making 3D printing truly 3D
Harvard researchers present a new method of volumetric 3D printing.
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Nation & World
The story behind Amartya Sen’s memoir
Nobel laureate, Harvard professor Amartya Sen talks about the challenges he faced writing his new memoir, “Home in the World.”
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Campus & Community
Bringing two worlds together
Harvard Graduate School of Education grad Nolan Altvater ’22 plans to work on changing education policy regarding Wabanaki culture in Maine public schools.
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Arts & Culture
How she went from being academic to creating Netflix show about one
Annie Julia Wyman, Ph.D. ’17 says her suggestibility led to “The Chair.”
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Arts & Culture
Like plunging over a waterfall
Natalie Hodges ’19 talks about her senior thesis-turned-book, “Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time.”
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Campus & Community
Library Collections in three dimensions
Librarians tell stories behind three objects: rare 16th-century globe set, Edison lightbulb, and DIY 1960s protest clothing.
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Health
Genetic risk scores developed for six diseases
Newly developed polygenic risk scores, which add up hundreds or thousands of genetic risk factors for six common diseases, can aid physicians and patients in making individualized disease screening and prevention decisions.
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Nation & World
At Div School, centuries-old Aztec language speaks to the present
An informal group of Harvard students study Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs that has been spoken in central Mexico since the seventh century.
