Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Campus & Community
A mother and son at trails’ end
Harvard’s Commencement on May 26 will be twice as meaningful for Jane Brown when she shares the milestone with her son Harry Stone.
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Campus & Community
From around the world and across Harvard
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named 50 fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. Eleven of the incoming class are Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
The quest to create an education system that works for all kids
Educators came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday for the kickoff of the Education Redesign Lab’s By All Means initiative, which will work closely in the field with six cities to tackle early childhood challenges.
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Arts & Culture
Radio heads
A dedicated group of students work hard to make WHRB, Harvard’s 24-hour radio station, run 365 days a year.
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Campus & Community
‘If you can stay present, that’s a better place to be’
Interview with women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Spiders to the rescue
During an instructive session at the Harvard Ed Portal, elementary school students learned the benefits of helpful spiders.
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Campus & Community
Ed School launches major early childhood initiative
The Harvard Graduate School of Education received the largest gift in its history from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation to focus on advancing early childhood education, which will distinguish HGSE as a national leader for work in this field.
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Campus & Community
2016 Harvard Deans’ Challenges winners announced
The 2016 winners of the Harvard Deans’ Challenges were announced in a ceremony at the Harvard i-lab on May 4. In its fourth year, the startup competition received more than 90 proposals from ventures representing 12 Harvard schools.
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Science & Tech
Putting the Glass Flowers in new light
The famed Glass Flowers gallery will reopen May 21 after the most extensive renovation in its history.
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Health
The eyes tell
A new study shows that gaze-following develops in monkeys in a way that’s nearly identical to humans, suggesting that the behavior has deep evolutionary roots.
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Arts & Culture
Trash becomes treasure, becomes art
Allston artist Konstantin Simun’s sculptures are inspired by his environment. His work is on display at the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery.
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Science & Tech
Printing metal in midair
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a laser-assisted direct ink writing method that prints microscopic metallic, free-standing 3-D structures in one step.
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Arts & Culture
From Swahili to Bemba to Twi
With more than 25 languages offered each semester, the African Language Program at Harvard is the world’s foremost.
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Campus & Community
Design, inspired by ‘the trays’
At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the tiered, open spaces long known as “the trays” help fire students’ imaginations.
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Nation & World
Divided by trade
UPenn political scientist Diana Mutz spoke at Radcliffe on the gap between how citizens and economists view global trade.
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Campus & Community
Project Teach shows youngsters what’s possible
Project Teach brings local middle-school students to Harvard’s campus to help them learn about the college experience and explore their options.
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Campus & Community
A course that keeps teaching
Educators gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal for Data Wise, a new HarvardX course that will transform classroom dynamics and build “collaborative inquiry” among teachers. The Data Wise Leadership Institute will begin in June.
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Campus & Community
Unlocking doors
Dominique Donette, who is graduating from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, beat long odds in her quest to help empower the powerless.
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Campus & Community
Yield remains high for Class of 2020
Nearly 80 percent of applicants admitted to the Class of 2020 have chosen to enroll at Harvard College.
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Science & Tech
The high costs of imported pests
Scientists from Harvard Forest joined a group of experts calling for new regulations and stepped-up surveillance to stem a flood of invasive forest pests whose costs are borne by U.S. homeowners, cities, and towns.
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Campus & Community
‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’
Interview with geneticist George Church as part of the Experience series.
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Arts & Culture
Ensler puts her life on stage
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler returns to the A.R.T. with a one-woman show, exploring how her work with women brutalized by sexual violence in the Congo helped her fight uterine cancer.
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Campus & Community
Five named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been selected as Harvard College Professors, five-year appointments that provide them with extra support for research or scholarly activities, a semester of paid leave, or summer salary.
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Campus & Community
Funding the future
The Star Family Challenge makes grants every year to high-risk, high-reward research efforts that might not receive funding through other programs. This year’s recipients are Edo Berger, Katia Bertoldi, Edward Glaeser, Talia Konkle, and Bence Ölveczky.
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Campus & Community
Float like a butterfly, work like a bee
To give back, extracurricular whirlwind Jesus Moran ’16 will teach in an urban school next fall.
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Science & Tech
Biodiesel one slick solution, but more to come
By turning waste fryer oil into biodiesel, Harvard undergraduates turned a chemistry class into a living lab for understanding the multifaceted problems posed by global climate change and sustainable development.
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Campus & Community
New faculty deans appointed
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced the appointment of the new faculty deans of Currier House. Professor Latanya Sweeney and Sylvia Barrett will take their posts this fall.
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Health
Gut-brain connection moves into MS territory
Using pre-clinical models for multiple sclerosis and samples from MS patients, a Harvard-affiliated team found evidence that changes in diet and gut flora may influence astrocytes in the brain, and, consequently, neurodegeneration, pointing to potential therapeutic targets.
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Nation & World
Bok Center celebrates 40 years
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning celebrates its 40th anniversary with a conversation between President Drew Faust and President Emeritus Derek Bok and a symposium on educating.
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Science & Tech
Targeting the ills of climate change
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a new Harvard climate change and global health initiative Thursday, saying that climate change impacts almost always affect human health.
