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Nation & World
‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts
In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.
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Campus & Community
Understanding the mayor’s office from the inside
Natalie Swartz has spent the past tumultuous year serving as the fifth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office.
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Nation & World
A diet that’s healthy for people, and the planet
At a virtual event, global experts examined obesity and malnutrition in the context of global warming, zoonotic disease, and other agriculture-related threats.
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Science & Tech
Electrodes that flow to fit the body
Scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created flexible, metal-free electrode arrays that conform to the body’s shapes.
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Nation & World
A reason to celebrate ‘On Juneteenth’
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the rising importance of “Juneteenth” as symbol and holiday.
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Nation & World
Supreme Court defers decision on reviewing admissions case
The Supreme Court has asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on a lawsuit involving Harvard’s admissions policies. The request postpones the court’s decision on whether to take a case that could have dramatic effects on diversity on college and university campuses across the country.
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Nation & World
Did Bill Barr ‘corrupt’ the Justice Department?
CNN legal analyst and HLS alum Elie Honig discusses how former Attorney General William Barr weaponized the Department of Justice to serve President Donald Trump, and harmed the institution in the process.
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Arts & Culture
With digital archive, a time and a new way to understand colonial history
Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.
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Campus & Community
Paving the way
The inaugural group of Harvard’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging fellows come from disciplines as diverse as the study of religion to Romance languages, English, and music.
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Nation & World
Learning from COVID’s ‘Chernobyl moment’
Members of an independent panel charged with coming up with ways to prevent the next pandemic urged international action.
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Nation & World
Can knowing someone of a different race early in life make you more liberal?
A new study finds links between white men having Black neighbors in their youth and later party affiliation.
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Campus & Community
The future of teaching and learning
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Backing high-risk, high-reward
Seven Harvard professors have been awarded funds from the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.
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Campus & Community
Glynn to retire as CEO of Harvard Allston Land Co.
Glynn was instrumental in advancing Harvard’s vision for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston
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Campus & Community
The serendipity of solitude
A breath of fresh air, meditation, or a yoga stretch during a “sun salutation” are simple ways to center yourself during challenging times.
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Health
New center seeks to understand any ‘magic’ in mushrooms
Massachusetts General Hospital’s new Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics aims to better understand psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes.
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Health
One shot at protection
The COVID-19 vaccine that requires just one shot has been shown to generate a robust immune responses against variants.
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Nation & World
Study suggests new lessons on COVID-19 and mass incarceration
Results of a new Harvard paper are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument against mass incarceration.
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Arts & Culture
A lens for detail
Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”
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Nation & World
Will a historically diverse new coalition bring big changes to Israel?
Robert Danin, a career U.S. diplomat, and Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and vice prime minister of Israel, discuss the potentially historic moment in Israeli politics as a coalition tries to end the 12-year run of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Arts & Culture
A way in
Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.
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Campus & Community
1,962 admitted to the Class of 2025
Nearly 85 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2025 say they will come to Harvard in the fall. Financial aid was a significant consideration in many of their decisions, according to William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions.
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Campus & Community
Global alumni community gather for first virtual annual meeting
The Harvard Alumni Association virtually convened the 151st Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Friday.
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Arts & Culture
Wonderland reimagined
Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”
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Campus & Community
‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
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Nation & World
Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students
Christina Cross discusses new research that suggests that financial and other resources are also key to success for youth.
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Nation & World
Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Work & Economy
Taking the crypto out of digital currency
Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Primavera De Filippi discusses the current state of cryptocurrency.
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Health
Chipping in to detect stroke
A clinical trial found that for certain patients, a small chip under the skin may help predict the likelihood of a second stroke.
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Campus & Community
New VP for human resources
Marking the culmination of a national search, Manuel Cuevas-Trisán has been appointed Harvard’s new vice president for human resources.
