Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Campus & Community
APA honors book on literacy
“Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children” by Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith Rowe, and Emily Dexter has won the 2013 Eleanor Maccoby Award by the American Psychological Association.
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Campus & Community
A lighthearted lunch
Close to 1,000 members of Cambridge’s senior community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre for the 37th annual summer luncheon.
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Campus & Community
Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in boldness
Greater Boston high school students learn the finer points of design as part of Project Link, a four-week summer program run by the Graduate School of Design.
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Nation & World
Inspiring as well as educating
Led by members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 83 teachers from around the world convened at Harvard last weekend for workshops and discussions to explore how the arts can help engage students across a range of subjects.
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Nation & World
The long journey to asylum
Behind the legal technicalities practiced at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, there are asylum clients with pain and persecution behind them, and hope ahead.
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Health
Stars in the making
A paper authored by Harvard’s Eli Visbal with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University suggests that it may be far easier than commonly thought to peer deep into the universe’s history and observe the telltale signs of the formation of the first stars and galaxies.
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Science & Tech
Deep glow
Dancers and scholars explored the art and science of bioluminescence during “Living Light” July 31 at the Science Center.
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Arts & Culture
Round and Round
With their inspired and insightful eyes, the Gazette’s staff photographers bring life at Harvard full circle. [Photo Journal]
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Campus & Community
A moveable feast comes to Harvard
On Tuesdays, from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the Harvard community stop by food trucks parked on Oxford Street and try a variety of artisan dishes for their lunchtime reprieve. The trucks are part of a Harvard community outreach effort called the Harvard Common Spaces program.
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Arts & Culture
Sweeping gestures, divine power
Master of calligraphy Haji Noor Deen’s work is on display in the CGIS South building in an exhibit titled “Arabic Islamic Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition: Works by Master Haji Noor Deen,” through Aug. 20.
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Science & Tech
Action figures come to life
A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters — or any other three-dimensional animations — into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3-D printer.
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Health
Health care savings, naturally
Though questions persist about whether natural remedies are as effective as their pharmacological cousins, one Harvard researcher is trying to understand the economic benefits people receive by relying on such traditional cures.
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Science & Tech
When microbes make the food
A Harvard Summer School class spurs learning through food, by examining how microbes — bacteria and fungi — can help as well as harm when they get into food, doing much of the work preparing cheeses, beer, soy sauce, and even chocolate.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson wins Cosmos Prize
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the 20th annual International Cosmos Prize by Japan’s Expo ’90 Foundation. The prize, worth 40 million Japanese yen ($511,444), will be presented to Wilson on Oct. 29 in Osaka, Japan.
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Campus & Community
Harvard baseball coach dies
Joe Walsh, the Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, died suddenly at his Chester, N.H., home early this morning, the Department of Harvard Athletics announced July 31.
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Campus & Community
Hidden Spaces: Tower classrooms
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The classrooms in Memorial Hall are a beautiful example.
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Health
Giving slime the slip
A team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome biofilms from ever forming on a surface.
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Science & Tech
Airborne pollutants lead a double life
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have provided visual evidence that atmospheric particles — which are ubiquitous, especially above densely populated areas — separate into distinct chemical compositions during their life cycle.
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Health
Alcohol abuse after weight loss surgery?
Experts on the use of bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study earlier this month for a two-day seminar examining new evidence that stomach surgery for the treatment of obesity has unexpected side effects, including an increased incidence of alcohol abuse among patients.
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Science & Tech
Concerns about climate change, health
A team of researchers led by James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, warns that a newly discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the Earth’s surface, leading to increased incidence of skin cancer.
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Health
A fresh look at mental illness
In a paper published in Neuron, Joshua Buckholtz and co-author Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg identify a biological reason for why many mental disorders share similar symptoms, a situation that makes diagnosis challenging.
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Science & Tech
Stages of superconductivity
Harvard physicists say they have unlocked the chemical secret that controls the “fool’s gold” of superconductivity, a “pseudogap” phase that mimics, but doesn’t have all the advantageous properties of, superconductivity.
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Health
Expanding Medicaid to low-income adults
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that expanding Medicaid to low-income adults leads to widespread gains in coverage, increased access to care, and — most importantly — improved health and reduced mortality.
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Campus & Community
Liverpool visits Harvard
British football club and English Premier League member Liverpool practiced at Harvard University this week prior to the team’s friendly exhibition against Roma at Fenway Park July 25.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Olympians
When the Olympic Games began, nine competitors and one coach with Harvard ties were there. Together they continued Harvard’s long-standing connection to the event.
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Health
Fixing the way we fix the brain
With neurodegenerative diseases affecting millions and having the potential to bankrupt the U.S. health care system, Harvard Medical School, seven pharmaceutical companies, and the Massachusetts state government have formed the Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium. The goal: to offer new collaborative research models.
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Campus & Community
Justin Stern awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Justin Stern the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. The competitive fellowship, which affords scholars the opportunity to conduct research or study outside of Cambridge, is awarded to…
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Campus & Community
Barreira named HUHS director
Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber announced July 26 the appointment of Paul J. Barreira, M.D., as director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene.
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Health
What wakes me
Clifford Saper, chair of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently discovered a brainstem area that senses oxygen dips and drives waking.
