Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Health
Added caution on pregnancy and alcohol
The Gazette spoke with Michael Charness, chief of staff for the Harvard-affiliated VA Boston Healthcare System, about the CDC’s recommendations to sexually active woman of childbearing age: either use birth control or don’t drink.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Undergraduate House libraries
Each of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential Houses has a library, and despite their rich histories and outward grandeur, these are intimate spaces. Students spend long stretches clicking away on laptops or fall asleep draped over books during all-night study sessions. For Taylor Carol ’17, who lives in Cabot House, “home base” is a corner desk…
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Arts & Culture
Artfully at rest
A selection of Mount Auburn Cemetery’s evocative funerary sculptures and monuments is the subject of a new book by Meg Winslow and Harvard’s Melissa Banta.
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Campus & Community
A record high for applications
Applications for admission to Harvard College are up 4.6 percent this year, with 39,044 students applying to the Class of 2020.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Arts & Culture
In his own works
A new exhibit at Houghton Library marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
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Science & Tech
Today’s farming practices can cool temps
In a surprising finding that runs counter to most climate change research, Harvard scientists examining temperature records have shown that, in regions with the most intense farming, peak summer temperatures have declined over the decades.
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Campus & Community
Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI
Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Nation & World
A question of citizenship
Two legal scholars debated whether U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, is a “natural born citizen” according to the Constitution, and thus eligible to serve as president.
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Science & Tech
Altered oceans
Proper management can bring species back from the brink and create healthier ocean ecosystems, experts said during a Center for the Environment panel.
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Campus & Community
Hailing Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hasty Pudding Theatricals hails actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as its 50th Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
‘A better version of itself’
Now 175 years old, the Harvard Alumni Association is still building, as its executive director says, a “better version of itself.”
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Nation & World
Trump hasn’t lost his edge, Schieffer says
The Kennedy School hosted a talk by veteran newsman Bob Schieffer on the state of the presidential race.
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Arts & Culture
Sense of solitude
The Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will sit down with Claire Messud, a lecturer and fellow novelist, as part of the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Writers Speak series.
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Campus & Community
Ups and downs at Harvard Stadium
“Good morning!” barks a scarf-wrapped runner in tights, peering through the darkness as she climbs the steps into cavernous Harvard Stadium. A woman nearby responds, “Oh, Hallie, how are you? Give me a hug!” and the two embrace. It is just after 5 a.m., and the weekly ritual of the November Project’s local chapter —…
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Arts & Culture
‘Pneuma(tic) Bodies’ at Carpenter Center
Sculptures and drawings are part of “Pneuma(tic) Bodies,” which opens today at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with a 6 p.m. dance performance featuring Jill Johnson.
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Health
Alzheimer’s insights in single cells
A study of plaque production at single-cell level holds promise to help improve Alzheimer’s treatment.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried drew from his HarvardX course, “Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract,” at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of its
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Arts & Culture
Breaking bonds of time
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” a special exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, makes room for different perspectives.
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Campus & Community
Lowe selected for National Council on the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe, the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program and a leading advocate for Native Americans in higher education, has been confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed by President Obama to join the National Council on the Humanities.
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Science & Tech
Making use of the head
Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.
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Campus & Community
Support for a diverse student body
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave its support Tuesday to a report that backs a diverse student body with deep interaction.
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Health
New drug target for Rett syndrome
Rett syndrome is a relatively common neurodevelopmental disorder, the second most common cause of intellectual disability in girls after Down syndrome. Building on 2004 findings, Harvard researchers identified a faulty signaling pathway that, when corrected in mice, improves the symptoms of Rett syndrome.
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Campus & Community
Cooperation is key to Dudley Co-op
Harvard students opt for a different House experience when they move into the Dudley Co-op.
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Arts & Culture
O’Neal, MacGraw revisit youthful ‘Love’
Actors Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal returned to Harvard to revisit the scene of their iconic movie “Love Story.”
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Campus & Community
Architect Frank Gehry to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Award-winning architect Frank Gehry, Ar.D. ’00, is the recipient of the 2016 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust at a ceremony on April 28 at 4 p.m. at Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke St., Cambridge.
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Science & Tech
Plants with biosensors may light the way
A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School has developed a new method for engineering a broad range of biosensors to detect and signal virtually any desired molecule using living eukaryotic cells. Its applications could range from detecting hormones to benefiting agriculture.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
Inequality is rampant in American life and is a key topic in the presidential campaign, but Harvard faculty members have been exploring its many facets for decades, and suggesting some solutions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard project to track personal data wins Knight News Challenge award
All the Places Personal Data Goes, based out of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, was one of 17 recipients of a Knight News Challenge award. The group was awarded $440,000.
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Health
Topical treatment on hand for liver spots
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are working on a topical treatment that may be available for those with seborrheic keratosis (SK), or liver spots. SKs vary in color from tan to black, can be flat or raised, and range in size from quite small to an inch or more across.
