Featured series 
Month: August 2017
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Campus & Community
Two advisory committees named
Harvard’s presidential search committee, comprising the 12 members of the University’s Corporation other than the president along with three members of the Board of Overseers, has announced the membership of the faculty and staff advisory committees for the search.
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Health
Cancer alarm at the firehouse
Harvard researchers have teamed with local departments to examine cancer hazards contained in firehouse life.
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Health
Bad knees through the ages
A new Harvard study is the first to definitively show that the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis has dramatically increased in recent decades.
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Campus & Community
What I did on my Summer Explorations
A cross between camp and summer school, the Harvard Ed Portal program lets kids learn by having fun.
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Arts & Culture
Letting his fiction wander
Creative writing lecturer Paul Yoon talks to the Gazette about his new book, “The Mountain,” and about his process, teaching, and the thinking behind his new story collection.
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Nation & World
Nation’s opioid emergency shows in findings on ICUs
Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported a sharp rise in opioid-related admissions and deaths in U.S. intensive care units since 2009.
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Campus & Community
Remembering Fred Glimp
Fred Lee Glimp Jr. ’50, Ph.D. ’64, who gave 50 years of service to Harvard, passed away in June at the age of 91.
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Nation & World
Gauging the bias of lawyers
Political scientist Maya Sen discusses why she believes that, despite accusations by the president and many on the right, a lawyer’s history of political donations to Democrats isn’t proof of professional bias.
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Health
Seeing promise, and limits, in embryo edit
The disease-targeting embryo edit at Oregon Health & Science University signals a path for “those rare situations where the genes really are life-threatening,” says Harvard bioethicist Robert Truog.
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Science & Tech
Viewing the solar eclipse? There’s an app for that
The Smithsonian and Harvard have released an interactive app ahead of the 2017 total solar eclipse, giving Americans a front-row seat to a rare celestial event.
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Nation & World
First interned, then left behind
A paper co-authored by Harvard economist Daniel Shoag found that Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps in poorer regions fared worse than those who were sent to richer areas, and the economic disadvantage persisted for generations.
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Science & Tech
The negative side of positive thinking
“It often seems that partisans believe they are so correct that others will eventually come to see the obviousness of their correctness,” said Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School about his new research.
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Health
Buried in health care imbroglio, trillion-dollar questions
After the Senate’s failure to reform Obamacare, Harvard economist David Cutler assesses what occurred and what the future might hold.
