Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Health
Science of stripes
Scientists have shown that to interrupt the development of pigment cells that form their stripes, African striped mice and chipmunks both use a gene that until now had been associated primarily with cranio-facial development.
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Work & Economy
Taking the stigma out of poverty
A two-day workshop will examine how poverty leads to social exclusion, and how to reduce it.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 16
On November 16 the Faculty Council heard a proposal to establish a master’s degree in Data Science and a proposal on course scheduling. The Council next meets on November 30.…
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Health
Recommendations to aid NFL players’ health
A new Harvard report addresses legal and ethical factors affecting the health of players in the National Football League, and makes recommendations to improve it.
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Nation & World
‘Desperate but not hopeless times’
A Europe showing cracks in its unity now adds worries about U.S. ties to its concerns, analysts tell a Harvard panel.
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Nation & World
Larry Wilmore on the election
In the end, comedian Larry Wilmore said in delivering the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, Americans elected the president they wanted.
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Health
Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders
Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.
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Science & Tech
What’s next for climate change policy
Harvard environmental experts looking ahead to a Trump administration see trouble for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and U.S. international climate action, but add that the nation’s environmental protection regulatory framework would be difficult to dismantle, and there may be hope for new approaches to addressing environmental ills.
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Campus & Community
Stuck between two lives
Alfredo Garcia, an undocumented student at Harvard Divinity School, is pursuing a master’s in theological studies. He also works to help undocumented youths pursue higher education, and advocates for immigration reform.
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Arts & Culture
‘Disappearing’ Chilean art
New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.
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Campus & Community
Embracing varieties of religious experience
An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Danielle Allen named University Professor
Danielle Allen has been named a University Professor. The political theorist and classicist has been recognized for her scholarly work on justice and citizenship.
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Science & Tech
Human health risks from hydroelectric projects
Harvard researchers found 90 percent of new or proposed hydroelectric power plants will increase the concentration of toxic methylmercury in the food web near indigenous communities in Canada.
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Health
‘DNA is not destiny’
A new study examines whether lifestyle changes can offset genetic risk of heart disease.
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Campus & Community
The career afterlife
Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellows find new ways to explore life after one career ends and they move into the social sector.
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Nation & World
Fear among some immigrants
New pressures are expected on undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Centuries of honor and prestige
A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Diversifying the arts
Harvard alumni, faculty describe efforts on and off campus to diversify the arts.
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Campus & Community
Siyani Chambers: Back on point
Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.
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Campus & Community
Harvard ROTC: Soldiers and Scholars
Photos from Harvard ROTC’s 100th birthday show the intersection of service and academics through time.
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Campus & Community
Life Lab builds on cross-disciplinary approach
The opening of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Allston marks the newest addition to the Innovations Labs cluster, which fosters the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.
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Nation & World
For President Trump, the road ahead
Noted faculty across Harvard weigh in on the election of Donald Trump and what his presidency is likely to mean for the economy, presidential politics, and more.
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Arts & Culture
Dancing because they can
College seniors opt to have fun, be themselves, and leave comfort zones through their participation in the Expressions Dance Company.
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Campus & Community
Lessons of self-care, while caring for others
Cheryl A. Giles, the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, has been counseling and educating young people for more than 30 years.
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Campus & Community
Election Day at Harvard
After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.
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Arts & Culture
When America tuned into the radio
The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments’ Special Exhibition Gallery takes visitors back to the golden age of radio.
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Health
Creating a smoking machine
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed an instrument that smokes cigarettes like a human, and delivers whole smoke to the air space of microfluidic human airway chips. The machine may enable new insights into how nonsmokers and COPD patients respond to smoke.
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Science & Tech
Fleeing climate change
The Gazette interviewed Robin Bronen, a human rights attorney and a senior research scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, on climate change displacement.
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Campus & Community
Harvard women, front and center
First Harvard Women’s Weekend focuses on what’s been gained, and what’s still to achieve.
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Arts & Culture
The sweep of jazz history
Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.
