Featured series 
Year: 2015
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Arts & Culture
Slavery’s lost lives, found
Historian Richard Dunn talks about his new book, a sweeping historical analysis of life on two plantations in Jamaica and Virginia across the final decades of slavery.
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Campus & Community
Covering the snow
Photo gallery: Harvard staff members keep the campus running throughout record snowfalls.
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Arts & Culture
Toward total war
Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.
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Science & Tech
Discovering ‘star nurseries’
In a quest to find mismatched star pairs known as extreme mass-ratio binaries, Harvard astronomers have discovered a new class of binary stars, in which one star is fully formed while the other is still in its infancy. The discovery of these stellar twins could provide invaluable insight into the formation and evolution of massive…
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Health
Women with heart risk
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, deadlier than all forms of cancer combined. The good news is that up to 90 percent of heart disease may be preventable.
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Campus & Community
Eva Longoria named Artist of the Year
Actress , businesswoman, and philanthropist Eva Longoria has been named Harvard University’s 2015 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 11
On Feb. 11, the Faculty Council voted to approve legislation regarding the affirmation of the honor code and heard a proposal from the Standing Committee on Dramatics to establish a concentration in Theater, Dance, and Media. They also met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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Campus & Community
Rulan Chao Pian
Rulan Chao Pian was a true cosmopolitan, a woman who crossed boundaries with quiet courage and grace. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a period when her father, the Chinese linguist and composer Yuen Ren Chao, taught at Harvard, she spent most of her childhood in various cities in China as well as in Paris, returning…
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Arts & Culture
Unmasking minstrelsy
A new exhibition at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, containing items from the Harvard Theatre Collection in Houghton Library, offers visitors a disturbing look at the racist history and enduring legacy of blackface minstrelsy.
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Campus & Community
With music as his muse
The newly renovated Barker Arts Café, brainchild of Diana Sorensen and the Humanities Project, aims to be a bohemian locus of student activity and conversation around the arts and humanities at Harvard College, and it is succeeding. Miles Hewitt, a sophomore English concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is a student musician who performed his original work…
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Science & Tech
An exchange in ideas and culture
Harvard and Brazilian students spent 10 days visiting sustainability-related sites around São Paulo as part of a field course sponsored by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the University of São Paulo.
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Campus & Community
Renewing Winthrop House
The renewal process is beginning for Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s oldest undergraduate dorms.
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Campus & Community
Snow way this continues
Around Harvard these days, the talk among administrators and facilities managers isn’t about the last snowstorm, as punishing it was. And it isn’t about the one before that, or the one before that. It’s about the next one.
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Science & Tech
Support for seven from president’s climate fund
Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.
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Arts & Culture
Dimensions of war, including peace
A new Harvard-wide seminar program, slated for three years, takes on a constellation of interdisciplinary issues around violence and nonviolence.
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Campus & Community
Leading man
Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored Chris Pratt on Friday as its 2015 Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Campaign hits milestone
The Harvard Campaign has raised $5 billion as of the end of last year to support the University and its programs.
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Campus & Community
Lauding journalism’s ‘watchdog role’
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award to broadcast journalist Amy Goodman.
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Nation & World
The makeover of Mexico City
With Harvard experts helping, clever and dynamic Mexico City is dealing with global megacity challenges like traffic and housing, and could be a template for a flexible, functioning urbanism of the future.
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Campus & Community
Seriously funny
Harvard student comics just flew in from the coast, and, man, are their arms tired.
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Campus & Community
Record 37,305 apply to College
A record 37,305 students have applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2019.
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Campus & Community
Ice to entice
Amid festivities, Harvard Skate opens its popular outdoor rink for another season.
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Nation & World
2016 issues: Voter anger, distrust
Public opinion analyst Peter Hart sizes up the country’s mood and the primary field during a talk at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy.
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Science & Tech
Taking to the woods
For a handful of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, the January semester break included a rare treat — a visit to the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass.
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Health
Sick with measles, again
Dyann Wirth, chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discusses what’s behind the resurgence of measles in the United States.
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Health
Pinpointing danger in hypertension
A Harvard endocrinologist was senior author on a study pinpointing the precise high blood pressure level and critical time when intervening was tied to a decrease in the risk of death.
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Science & Tech
A trap for greenhouse gas
A team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power-plant emissions.
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Health
Twice doomed?
Growing evidence points to a role for volcanoes in dinosaur extinction, said planetary scientist Mark Richards in a Harvard lecture.
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Health
Unlocking fat
A study by Emily Groopman ’14 shows that cooking helps to unlock the calories in fatty foods.
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Campus & Community
The case of the disappearing dishes
Undergraduate and graduate students took part in jDesign, a four-day, hands-on Wintersession workshop that harnessed student energy and creativity to tackle real-world design problems — in this case, the loss of dishware from the University’s dining halls.
