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  • Managing construction’s return to a ‘new normal’

    Campus Services and construction officials at Harvard spoke to the Gazette about safely and responsibly resuming construction projects after Boston’s stay-home advisory is lifted.

    Construction site in Allston.
  • A virtual celebration of innovation at Harvard

    The Bertarelli Foundation prizes awarded $510,000 to winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, in which Harvard students and alumni showcase their solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems across industries.

    Vincere Health co-founder and CEO Shalen De Silva.
  • Clearing the air

    Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable

    Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20 in front of woodpile.
  • A new mission in Haiti

    When Christophe Millien finishes his graduate studies at Harvard Medical School this month, he will return to Haiti to address the medical problem caused by uterine fibroids suffered by Haitian women.

    Christophe Millien, an OB/GYN from Haiti.
  • Hitting full stride in emergency medicine

    Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.

    Kirstin Woody Scott on dirt road.
  • An enduring bond

    Four sets of roommates from the Class of 2020 gave the Gazette a glimpse of life inside the dorms back in 2017. Where are they now?

    Roommates Tatiana Patino and Walburga Khumalo are pictured as first-year students and then as seniors before they move off campus.
  • ‘When you see death all the time, you go into this mode of increased energy and sharper focus’

    Pioneering AIDS researcher Myron “Max” Essex was one of the first to propose that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS.

    Max Essex.
  • Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia

    D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.

    Bradley Ashton Thomas.
  • Exploring from home

    Harvard Ed Portal’s virtual field trips help students see the world.

    Zoom call.
  • ‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’

    Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.

    Salvador Pena.
  • Dear Harvard

    Students launch virtual postcard project to keep the Harvard community connected.

    Graphic.
  • In tune with a program of dual study

    Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.

    Avanti Nagral in a car.
  • Rising above a biased system he’s now determined to change

    Growing up in Mattapan, Kwame Adams refused to be defined by low expectations. Now the Ed School grad aims to help Boston students of color avoid the same biases he faced.

    Kwame Adams
  • A drive that’s taken her around the world

    Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.

    Rewan Abdelwahab in Egypt.
  • Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors

    Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Gabrielle Donaldson and family.
  • Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away

    Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Allison Law.
  • Wishing there’d been just a little more time to savor senior year on campus

    Neuroscience concentrator Hayoung Ahn describes how things are going in Queens, N.Y., now that she’s back home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Hayoung Ahn.
  • HAA honors three with Harvard Medal

    The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, will receive the 2020 Harvard Medal.

    Memorial Hall at Harvard University.
  • Coming full circuit

    From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.

    Billy Koech.
  • Doing the right thing

    Jose Cerda III ’88, Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95, and Theresa Reno-Weber, M.P.P. ’08, offer the Class of 2020 advice about the value of public service.

    Reno-Weber leads a crew for Metro United Way’s Day of Action.
  • A warning on homeschooling

    Q&A with HLS professor and child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet, who calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.

    Elizabeth Bartholet.
  • Reason to smile

    After he graduates from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Jeffrey Taylor will pursue a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery where he’ll one day reconstruct damaged jaws, fix life-altering facial deformities.

    Jeffrey Taylor.
  • Reopening research operations

    The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.

    Harvard's Longwood Medical area.
  • Scenes from the socially distant

    In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.

    Marion Dierickx.
  • Nine faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

    Nine Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

    Harvard Medical School building.
  • Positive disruption

    Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.

    Saamon Legoski.
  • Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next

    Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

    Doctors.
  • Once on this island

    Marvin Merritt IV ’20 was born and raised on the small island of Deer Isle, Maine, the centerpiece for his senior thesis and a single destination in this artist’s journey.

    Deer Isle-Stonington Bridge.
  • $16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID

    MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.

    An electron microscopy photo of the coronavirus COVID-19.
  • Birth of a sleuth

    As a first-year, Jordan Villegas ’20 took his passion for archival research to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and spent his next four years becoming a Radcliffe triple threat.

    Jordan Villegas.