Featured series 
Year: 2013
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Nation & World
The dream, 50 years later
Thousands will join President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and celebrate a powerful moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The commemoration stirs not only potent memories of that day, but for some with Harvard ties, mixed emotions about the march’s lasting legacy.
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Campus & Community
Boxes, bins, and bedding
Harvard Yard began to come alive again Monday morning as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus.
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Campus & Community
Eat, play, sleep
As freshmen move into dorms in and around the Yard, fellow students, faculty, and administrators offer their advice on how best to adjust to the Harvard experience. Their suggestions range from maintaining basic wellness to making sure to have fun.
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Science & Tech
Popsicle Earth
A recently published paper says that during the last glacial maximum, more ice than previously thought covered the globe.
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Campus & Community
Old Quincy, suddenly new
After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy is ready to welcome back students for the academic year.
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Arts & Culture
Light, bright, and modern
The strikingly modernist Carpenter Center, which turned 50 this year, was Le Corbusier’s only building in North America and was the last major project of his life. This video explores the building’s color palette.
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Science & Tech
Removing indoor pollution
A Harvard School of Public Health graduate and doctoral candidate in environmental health is one of the creative forces behind SolSource, a revolutionary, sun-powered grill designed specifically to reduce pollution inside rural houses.
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Science & Tech
Ideas to build on
In the face of a coming century of rising seas, a Harvard design studio opens the door to creative speculation on how to remake the infrastructures of coastline cities.
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Campus & Community
David K. Smith, former dean of Radcliffe admissions, 77
Former dean of Radcliffe admissions David K. “Deke” Smith of Topsham, Maine, died Aug. 14 at the age of 77, following a brief battle with cancer.
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Science & Tech
The look of music
A new study by Chia-Jung Tsay, a musician and Harvard Ph.D., examines the power of visual information in evaluating classical music.
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Campus & Community
Harry Parker honored with inspiring memorial, row
A memorial service for Harry Parker on Aug. 17 gathered the coach’s family and former students. Parker passed away June 25 at the age of 77. He served as the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew for 51 seasons.
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Campus & Community
A walk in Thoreau’s woods
The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.
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Campus & Community
A shoe thing
A limited-edition sneaker honoring the “three lies” of the John Harvard Statue goes on sale, drawing fashion fans from far and wide.
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Campus & Community
Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10
Award-winning author and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore will talk about her latest title, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” on Sept. 10 at the Radcliffe Institute.
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Nation & World
Egypt boils over
The Gazette spoke with Harvard’s E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus, about the build-up to chaos in Egypt.
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Science & Tech
Seeds of violence in climate change
Nathan Black, the French Environmental Fellow, is studying how nations fall into civil war during the type of agricultural disruption possible with a changing climate — and what some nations might do to prevent it.
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Science & Tech
Water crisis, made clear
Thirty-one schoolteachers spent four days on campus last week at a workshop put together by Harvard’s regional centers and programs to provide background on the growing global water crisis.
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Nation & World
Deepening ties to Latin America
Harvard’s role in an increasingly connected world includes deep ties to Latin America, where faculty and students are engaged in a range of research projects and initiatives, from climate research in Brazil to disaster relief work in Chile to protecting Maya art and architecture in Honduras.
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Campus & Community
Harry Parker memorial service set for Aug. 17
A memorial service for Harry Parker will be held 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. There will also be a row in Parker’s honor at 9 a.m. and an afternoon tea at 3:30 p.m.
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Campus & Community
The story deepens
East Boston elementary school children are exploring and interpreting “The Wizard of Oz” through the creative arts using a program called Pre-Texts, which was developed by Doris Sommer, the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Tommy Amaker to be honored in D.C.
Harvard men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker has been selected for induction into the Washington Metropolitan Basketball Hall of Fame, adding to the growing list of honors he has received this offseason. The ceremony will be held Sept. 24 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., as part of “An Evening with the Legends…
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Campus & Community
Loeb House garden: Colorful blooms of Elizabeth Gray
Elizabeth Gray, senior associate secretary to the University, has tended the Loeb House garden in Harvard Yard since 1985.
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Health
Organs-on-chips evaluate therapies for lethal radiation exposure
A team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard has received a $5.6 million grant from the FDA to use its organs-on-chips technology to test human physiological responses to radiation and evaluate drugs designed to counter those effects.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s gates, on the screen
The Nieman Foundation’s first e-book explores the history, mystery, and magic of the gates surrounding Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
A boost to international learning
Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences has provided a boost to four new programs, as well as providing renewal or extension funding to three other projects.
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Health
A marker for breast cancer
An international scientific collaborative led by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Kornelia Polyak has discovered why women who give birth in their early 20s are less likely to develop breast cancer than women who don’t, triggering a search for a way to confer this protective state on all women.
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Nation & World
Snakes on the brain
In a presentation to an educators’ conference, HGSE’s Steven Seidel explored how joyfully blending the arts into education leads to successful teaching.
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Health
Getting around gluten
The Harvard Allston Education Portal on Thursday hosted a workshop examining the effects of gluten on health, with Jennifer Zartarian of Cambridge Health Associates answering questions and acting as a guide through the latest research.
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Arts & Culture
The rote notes of early U.S. law
The Harvard Law School Library has digitized law student notebooks from 200 years ago, giving online readers a glimpse at legal education in the young United States.
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Nation & World
Truth in fiction
HBS Professor Joseph Badaracco trains students for the complexities of the business world by examining great works of literature.
