Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Campus & Community
Shareholder report available Jan. 15
The 2015 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available on the Shareholder Responsibility Committees’ website.
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Nation & World
Top-down urgency for criminal-justice reform
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch made a strong case for criminal-justice reform during a talk at Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
King’s Harvard connections
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. may be most associated with his efforts to desegregate the South, but the minister also had a valuable and lasting relationship with New England, and with Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Leading through impact
For Harvard computer scientists, entrepreneurship is often a fulfilling extension of their cutting-edge research.
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Campus & Community
6 named Schwarzman fellows
Six Harvard students were chosen to study in Beijing as part of first class of Schwarzman Scholars.
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Arts & Culture
David Bowie and me
Harvard faculty members reflect on the artistic and cultural legacies of trailblazing musician David Bowie, who died this week at age 69.
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Campus & Community
Walter Kaiser dies
Walter Kaiser, Harvard’s Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, died on Jan. 5.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Alumni Association announces candidates for Harvard Overseers and elected directors
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors.
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Campus & Community
Digitizing Native American petitions
The Council on Library and Information Resources, through its Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, has awarded a grant of $275,795 to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in collaboration with a Yale partner, to create the Digital Archive of Native American Petitions in Massachusetts.
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Arts & Culture
A playful turn for libraries
A new initiative is underway to use gaming and crowdsourcing to speed the massive task of transcribing documents, at Harvard and around the world.
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Health
Dance that adapts to disabilities
A Graduate School of Education alumna brings her family history into the dance studio as she teaches children with disabilities the art of movement and the rewards they can reap.
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Nation & World
Nuclear nervousness
Analysts at Harvard Kennedy School discuss North Korea’s latest nuclear test and the political implications it presents not only for neighboring powers like China and Russia, but for the rest of the world.
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Health
Oral contraceptives don’t increase risk of birth defects
Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, according to a new study by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark.
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Science & Tech
New destination for space-faring civilizations?
Globular star clusters date back almost to the birth of the Milky Way, and according to new research, they also could be extraordinarily good places to look for space-faring civilizations.
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Health
Closer to detecting when and why blood clots form
A research team at the Wyss Institute has developed a novel microfluidic device in which blood flows through a lifelike network of small “vessels.” Using automated pressure sensors and a proprietary algorithm, the data acquired is analyzed in real time and precisely predicts when a certain blood sample will obstruct the blood vessel network.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School’s Helmut Koester dies at 89
Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on Jan. 1 at age 89.
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Health
Strength in movement
Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires.
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Science & Tech
Did famine worsen the Black Death?
New European ice-core data provides a view of the difficult times that led up to and may have worsened the Black Death.
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Campus & Community
Immersing themselves in marine biology
Local high school students looked at life in the deep sea as they explored the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “Marine Life” exhibit. The visit was part of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s Marine Science Internship Program.
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Health
When one twin gets cancer, other faces higher risk
A large new study of twins has found that a person whose twin is diagnosed with cancer stands an increased risk of also developing a form of cancer.
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Science & Tech
Artificial pancreas system aimed at type 1 diabetes mellitus
The University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an artificial pancreas system designed to help regulate blood sugar levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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Nation & World
Fighting for disarmament
Disarmament expert Bonnier Docherty talks about cluster bombs, incendiary and explosive weapons, which are widely used in modern warfare, the threats they pose to civilians, and why countries should restrict their use.
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Nation & World
‘The story of us’
By animating our minds, a sprawling HarvardX MOOC seeks to democratize science.
