Featured series 
Year: 2018
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Campus & Community
Raj Chetty returning to Harvard
Economist Raj Chetty, who left Harvard for Stanford in 2015, is returning to Harvard this summer to become the inaugural William A. Ackman Professor of Economics, and continue his work on American inequality.
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Campus & Community
‘In our common spaces lie uncommon opportunities’
Under President Drew Faust, the Committee on Common Spaces at Harvard has created new spaces across campus in order to generate greater discussion, collaboration, partnership, learning, and sense of belonging.
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Health
Mindfulness meditation and relaxation response affect brain differently
A Harvard study shows mindfulness meditation and “The Relaxation Response” provide distinct effects on brain areas associated with awareness and with deliberate relaxation.
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Health
Smartphones, teens, and unhappiness
Psychologist Jean Twenge examines how smartphones affect teenagers’ happiness, and advises on the healthiest ways for children and adults to use smartphones.
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Work & Economy
Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks
In Harvard studies, one of which tracked more than 20,000 beverage sales, graphic warning labels were linked to reduced sugary drink purchases.
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Campus & Community
Minow named University Professor
Human rights expert Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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Arts & Culture
Early goals for new curator
When Soyoung Lee takes the reins as the Harvard Art Museums’ chief curator in September, she will be joining the institution at a vibrant time, with some goals already clear.
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Health
When wandering minds are just fine
While most of the psychological literature calls mind wandering a detrimental “failure of executive control” or a “dysfunctional cognitive state,” a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there’s no harm in it.
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Health
Harvard program hears from Sirleaf on putting education first
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shared her experiences as president of Liberia in a session of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program.
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Campus & Community
Harvard through Drew Faust’s eyes
The outgoing president reflects on her personal connections to campus in 360-degree video vignettes.
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Campus & Community
Documents released in admissions lawsuit
Harvard, plaintiff explain their stances in case likely to go to trial in October.
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Health
Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Heroes, including Faust, honored at Sanders Theatre
The 2018 Harvard Heroes ceremony at Sanders Theatre celebrated the efforts of 61 extraordinary employees, including President Drew Faust.
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Health
Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Campus & Community
Court to receive motions in admissions lawsuit
Harvard, plaintiff on Friday will present their competing positions in an admissions lawsuit against the College.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s Glaeser welcomes global shift to cities
City of Boston official Brian Golden joined Professor Edward Glaeser at the Ed Portal for a discussion focused on the future of cities.
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Nation & World
Local teachers get an education in addressing hard questions
To help give local educators the capacity to bring thoughtful ideas back to their communities, two students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education recently offered a program on race and equity in education.
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Campus & Community
Soyoung Lee named chief curator at Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Soyoung Lee will become its new chief curator effective Sept. 24.
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Campus & Community
Leveling the playing field
Often, getting into college and paying for it are two very different challenges. That’s where Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative comes in. By opening the doors to exceptional students regardless of their family income, the initiative has brought more diversity — both racially and economically — to Harvard College.
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Health
A better way of living
Aaron Bernstein, associate director for Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, studies how changes in transportation, diet, and energy can immediately benefit health.
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Campus & Community
Faust to receive Kluge Prize
The Library of Congress announced it will award to Harvard President Drew Faust the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
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Campus & Community
Sandel wins Asturias Award
Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, has won the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award in Social Sciences.
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Nation & World
Speaking up, reaching out
Lawyer and then-professor of law at Ambo University, Zelalem Kibret first visited a jailed politician in Ethiopia’s infamous Kaliti Prison in 2012, hoping to raise awareness about people arrested for challenging the status quo. In 2014, Zelalem found himself behind bars for speaking up.
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Campus & Community
Young alumni: Exposure to differences spurred growth
Young Harvard alumni explain how exposure to differences among a diverse College cohort broadened them.
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Science & Tech
IT for social justice
Keynote speakers at the eighth Harvard IT Summit focused on how technology can contribute to a more diverse, just, and civil society.
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Science & Tech
Eye-popping arachnids
Harvard researchers examined mysteries of color in the spider species Phoroncidia rubroargentea.
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Arts & Culture
A cast fit for an Egyptian king
Harvard students have created a replica of the ‘Dream Stela’ that rests between the paws of the Great Sphinx in Giza.
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Campus & Community
When a House is a bountiful home
Harvard roommates from varied backgrounds say that, in the College’s House system, their differences draw them together.
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Arts & Culture
‘Now I am the memory that’s left’
Patricia J. Williams changed the focus of her fellowship after the death of her mother last fall as she realized, “Now I am the memory that’s left.”
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Science & Tech
Team plans industrial-scale carbon removal plant
In a step to help fight global warming, Harvard Professor David Keith has a plan to repurpose existing technology to slash the costs of carbon capture.
