Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Campus & Community
Top stories of 2016
A look back at some of the Gazette’s most popular stories of 2016.
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Campus & Community
Style with staying power
The Ivy League style of clothiers such as J. Press and the Andover Shop has stood the test of time.
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Campus & Community
Recognition for their discoveries
Harvard physicists Cumrun Vafa and Andrew Strominger have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their groundbreaking work in a number of areas, including black hole theory, quantum gravity, and string theory.
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Campus & Community
Backstage at Harvard’s Oberon Theater
Go behind the scenes of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club’s production of “Into the Woods”
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Science & Tech
A platform for rapid innovation
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has established a collaborative research agreement with Facebook, which establishes a platform to quickly and easily pursue joint or sponsored research projects with the company.
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Arts & Culture
Making magic out of 26 letters
Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.
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Health
Spotting speedy brain activity
Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.
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Health
Love interrupted
A new study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center examines the neuroanatomy behind delusional misidentification syndromes.
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Health
Topical treatment clears precancerous skin lesions
Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found a topical chemotherapy and an immune-system-activating compound that is able to rapidly clear actinic keratosis lesions from patients participating in a clinical trial.
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Arts & Culture
In ‘Fingersmith,’ lead role for lighting
Lighting designer Jen Schriever talks about her vision for the A.R.T.’s adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel “Fingersmith.”
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Campus & Community
Delving into ‘belonging’ at Harvard
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, created by President Drew Faust in September, is gathering information through listening sessions and has started subcommittees to examine how to build on Harvard’s commitment to campus diversity and be a university where all feel they belong.
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Science & Tech
Diamonds are a lab’s best friend
Using the atomic-scale quantum defects in diamonds known as nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect the magnetic field generated by neural signals, scientists working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth, a faculty member in Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Physics Department, demonstrated a noninvasive technique that can show the activity of neurons.
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Campus & Community
‘I’m very lucky to represent’ Harvard
Tommy Amaker reflects on becoming the Crimson’s winningest men’s basketball coach after his 179th win.
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Arts & Culture
Forever bringing joy
Professor Alex Rehding talks about his research for a book on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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Campus & Community
Rhodes and Marshall scholars
At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.
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Science & Tech
The world’s tiniest radio
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world’s smallest radio receiver, built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Yard to Boston City Hall
Jackie Lender ’16, who is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, shares her experience.
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Science & Tech
The duo who upended intuition
On a visit to Harvard, best-selling author Michael Lewis talked about the deep friendship and pioneering collaboration of famed psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work created the field of behavioral economics.
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Health
Better days for Boston cyclists
Boston has become a safer place for bicyclists as it has improved its infrastructure, a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says, with the chances of being injured in a bicycle accident falling 14 percent a year between 2009 and 2012.
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Nation & World
Inside the hacked U.S. election
Kevin Ryan, a Russia-U.S. security analyst and Belfer Center director of defense and intelligence projects, discusses the conclusion by U.S. intelligence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and did so in an effort to boost the Republicans.
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Science & Tech
The climate change threat to food
Four experts gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a panel concerning the impact of climate change on agriculture and the global food system, with an emphasis on the United States and Africa, and a nod toward what the incoming Trump administration might do about the issue.
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Campus & Community
Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95
Thomas C. Schelling, a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School and a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died at 95.
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Health
Longer use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women
A Harvard study has found that women who used ibuprofen or acetaminophen for six years or more were at higher risk of hearing loss than those who used these medications for a year or less.
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Science & Tech
Harvard students, meet the Stone Age
Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.
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Campus & Community
Seeing Harvard at dawn
In the morning hours before classes start, the Harvard community prepares for the day ahead.
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Campus & Community
938 admitted early to College Class of 2021
Harvard admissions officials say 938 students have been admitted early to the College to the Class of 2021, as early action thrives as a “new normal” for undergraduate admissions.
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Nation & World
Harvard joins American Talent Initiative
Harvard has joined the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of colleges and universities that seeks to attract, enroll, and graduate high-achieving, lower-income students.
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Arts & Culture
The potter’s magic fingers
Native American potters offer hands-on insights into centuries-year-old artistry.
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Arts & Culture
A new holiday song cycle
The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society premiered Paul Moravec’s composition at a holiday concert.
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Campus & Community
The ways Boston changed
Students enrolled in the course “Reinventing (and Reimagining) Boston: The Changing American City” examine the city and the many changes it has undergone in recent decades.
