Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Science & Tech
Nature as storm defender
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s new program “Next in Science” brought together early career scientists to present their research to Harvard and the public. The event, which included speakers from the University of Glasgow and the Sea Education Association, offered a preview of Radcliffe’s October ocean symposium, “From Sea to Changing Sea.”
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Science & Tech
Tackling carbon emissions in China
A Beijing symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute explored the possibility of China adopting a carbon tax as a way to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Gazette spoke with economist Dale Jorgenson, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project,…
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Science & Tech
On demand, and now on schedule
Joshua Meier ’18, a computer science and chemistry concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, launched TaxiLater, an iPhone app that lets users arrange an Uber pickup hours, days, or even months in advance.
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Nation & World
After Brexit, a changed future
Harvard analysts talk about the effects of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union on both Britain and the continent.
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Arts & Culture
Finding beauty in the bizarre
The Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910,” on view through Aug. 14, borrows its name from the 1857 collection of symbolist poems about decadence and eroticism by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It also captures the essence of an artistic movement that sought to render the invisible visible through the use…
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Science & Tech
Defending breakthrough research
Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.
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Campus & Community
Hidden Spaces: The Sunken Garden in Radcliffe Yard
Young and old travel from near and far to the Radcliffe sunken garden to sit and enjoy this splendid oasis in the city.
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Nation & World
Limitations on the undocumented
A divided Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s executive actions that could have aided 5 million illegal immigrants, and Harvard analysts reacted.
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Nation & World
Affirming whole-person admissions
Universities may continue to consider racial and ethnic backgrounds in evaluating their applicants for admission, Supreme Court rules.
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Campus & Community
Graceful exit
Grace Scheibner, the first director of Harvard’s Commencement office, is stepping down after 24 years in the role.
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Campus & Community
Labors of love for scholar at heart
Leo Damrosch has the relaxed air of a man six years into retirement. Since adding emeritus to his title as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Damrosch has won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World.” More recently, “Eternity’s Sunrise: The…
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Campus & Community
A chance to soar, through science
At a pair of events, Cambridge eighth-graders presented projects they researched while at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Paul C. Martin dies at 85
Paul C. Martin, the prolific theoretical physicist who led Harvard Division of Applied Sciences for 20 years, has died at 85.
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Campus & Community
Courtyard named for Rothenberg
The courtyard at Winthrop House’s Standish Hall will be renamed in honor of longtime Harvard supporter James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, who died last July.
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Health
Against suicide, a century of little progress
Matthew Nock, a psychology professor, talked to the Gazette about a recent federal report showing a sharp rise in suicide in the United States.
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Health
Acting dean for Medical School
Barbara McNeil, health policy expert and longtime faculty member, to serve as interim dean at Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
Harvard professor wins Blavatnik Award
Harvard Professor David Charbonneau has won a Blavatnik Award for his work identifying faraway planets, and other science.
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Nation & World
Britain muses: Play bridge or solitaire?
Former Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander discusses the issues behind the national referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union and the potential economic and political ramifications should voters decide to sever ties.
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Nation & World
Left to their demons
The Gazette spoke with psychologist Richard Mollica about a lesser known crisis zone for the displaced: mental health.
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Health
First area cell transplantation center
An expansive effort by several Harvard-affiliated units and hospitals has created the first cell transplantation center in the Boston area.
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Campus & Community
A pathway to success
The Allston Brighton Adult Education Collaborative brings together social services and organizations to help local residents improve their lives and prospects.
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Campus & Community
Looking indoors to health
Harvard’s University Construction Management Council is celebrating its 10th year and forging ahead on projects such as acting to remove flame retardants and other toxic chemicals from building interiors.
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Science & Tech
Fishing gaps called malnutrition threat
Declining fish catches around the world have set off concerns about malnutrition, especially among the poor.
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Campus & Community
Together in sorrow, and resolve
A vigil was held at Tercentenary Theatre yesterday to honor the victims of the Orlando mass shooting.
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Nation & World
Support for second chances
A large group of HLS students is participating in Clemency Project 2014, a coalition to help nonviolent drug offenders apply for clemency before President Obama leaves office.
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Campus & Community
Champions for financial aid
Tim and Michele Barakett’s $25 million gift to The Campaign for Arts and Sciences will extend the impact of financial aid for undergraduates.
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Nation & World
How to curb the madness
After Orlando, Harvard experts offer ways to reduce what seems unstoppable: mass violence.
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Health
Eye-opening complexity
The findings of Professor Jeff Lichtman and postdoctoral fellow Joshua Morgan have unveiled unexpected neural complexity in the thalami of mice, potentially challenging a number of core tenets of brain science.
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Nation & World
The making of the campaign, 2016
New analysis by Harvard Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson finds the conflicted motivation of news outlets covering the 2016 election has resulted in significantly lopsided and disparate attention paid to the Republican and Democratic candidates.
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Nation & World
When passengers air their fury
New research co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton finds that dividing airplane passengers into first class and economy cabins fosters more incidents of air rage.
