Featured series 
Year: 2017
-
Work & Economy
The NBA-HBS career connection
When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.
-
Science & Tech
Babies understand cost-reward tradeoffs behind others’ actions, study says
Harvard and MIT study reveals that babies understand the cost-reward tradeoffs behind others’ actions.
-
Health
Unraveling the brain’s secrets
Harvard scientists are among those who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
-
Nation & World
Taxing advanced degrees
Nobody enters a Ph.D. program to earn money. Students have long known that preparing for a career in research or academia often means trading financial reward today for the chance to tackle…
-
Arts & Culture
We speak, therefore we are
Divinity School alum and indigenous Maskoke person Marcus Briggs-Cloud discusses his efforts to maintain his ancestral language and identity in the next installment of the Gazette’s podcast “Heard at Harvard.”
-
Arts & Culture
The world according to Conrad
Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
-
Arts & Culture
Preserving a culture, one speaker at a time
Since 1996, the Yuchi Language Project has been fighting to preserve the language of the Yuchi people.
-
Campus & Community
Food programs grow as Harvard cooks up new ideas
The University donates an average of 2,600 pounds of food each month to help feed the area’s hungry. Much of it comes as meals prepared by Harvard students.
-
Nation & World
Zimbabwe after Mugabe
Glen Mpani, a Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow, discusses the soft coup in Zimbabwe that has toppled dictator Robert Mugabe and explains what the shake-up could mean for the beleaguered nation.
-
Arts & Culture
Turn on, tune in, geek out
Houghton Library displays highlights from the 50,000 pieces inherited from a billionaire collector who was obsessed with the search for transcendence through sex, drugs, and rock ’n ’roll.
-
Health
Study explores whole-body immunity
New research on the immune system suggests that the molecule interferon plays an important role in activating antiviral genes across many tissues, helping against infection.
-
Campus & Community
Rhodes Scholars had help along the way
A closer look at the four Harvard undergrads selected with 28 other students as 2018 U.S. Rhodes Scholars.
-
Campus & Community
Gratitude aplenty
Faculty and staff at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences sent appreciative notes and dropped off donations to the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at a pre-Thanksgiving celebration.
-
Nation & World
Native leader, legal beacon
Julian SpearChief-Morris is the first indigenous president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in its 104 years. The bureau is the country’s oldest student-run organization providing free legal services, and one of the three honor societies at Harvard Law School.
-
Campus & Community
Opening the gates, closing the education gap
In Washington, D.C., gathering, Faust and faculty discuss closing the education gap through equity.
-
Arts & Culture
How a curator sees $450M Leonardo
Insight from Cassandra Albinson of Harvard Art Museums on the $450.3 million sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”
-
Campus & Community
Samuel Huntington, 81
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Samuel Huntington was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
-
Campus & Community
Adam Marian Dziewoński, 79
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Adam Marian Dziewoński was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
-
Arts & Culture
Michael Ondaatje goes deep into character
Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient” and other novels, read passages from his work and took questions on his creative process during a Harvard forum.
-
Campus & Community
Avoiding cyber attacks
Harvard’s Chief Information Security Officer Christian Hamer offers best-practice guidelines to guard against phishing attacks.
-
Health
Microbial menace
A new study has shown that — under certain conditions — gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts.
-
Health
Hitting diabetes where we eat
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School to discuss recent developments in the fight against the country’s diabetes epidemic.
-
Campus & Community
Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.
-
Nation & World
The lives of Harvard’s Rhodes
Rhodes Scholars from Harvard reflect on learning at Oxford, the world’s oldest English-speaking university.
-
Campus & Community
Crimson basketball shooting for top slot
Harvard men’s basketball has received positive preseason attention, including a 2-0 start.
-
Campus & Community
To everything there is a season? It’s not as simple as that
Harvard scientists and Cambridge Public Schools educators are collaborating on a special-thinking program that clears up misconceptions and teaches eighth-graders the hard science behind the changing seasons.
-
Science & Tech
Students help groups to pursue climate action
Harvard living lab course works to find practical alternatives to carbon use.
-
Arts & Culture
Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan
A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.
-
Nation & World
For Faludi, a rare internal gaze
“Suspicious of the privileging of the personal,” author and journalist Susan Faludi, who’ll speak at the Schlesinger Library soon, has written an unexpected look at her own life.
-
Campus & Community
Removing barriers to public service
Harvard College announced a $12.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost the College’s efforts to develop the next generation of public service leaders.
