Featured series 
Month: September 2019
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Campus & Community
Harvard microbe hunter wins Blavatnik Award
Emily Balskus will be honored on Sept. 23 with the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for her work in tracking never-before-seen chemistry to specific bacteria in the human gut.
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Campus & Community
A link across campus
Harvard Link is an application that for the first time funnels University-related events, news, organizations, and faculty and staff contact information into a centralized data bank. The system then analyzes that data and creates personalized dashboards for users based on their professional interests.
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Health
Expressing genes
Harvard University staff member Marnie Gelbart is the director of programs for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) at Harvard Medical School, and is a co-principal investigator of Building Awareness, Respect, and Confidence through Genetics (ARC), a five-year NIH-funded project through which pgEd is developing curricula on identity and inclusion working with teachers in urban…
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Health
Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School said despite progress at making college student bodies more diverse, work still needs to be done to make students of all backgrounds feel welcome, a key step in heading off increased rates of mental illness such students experience on campus.
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Science & Tech
Solve ocean’s troubles and climate change too?
Experts from Harvard and beyond gathered Monday to discuss the oceans’ plight in a warming world, offering hopeful solutions despite the often bleak assessment prompted by warming, pollution, acidification, and coral bleaching.
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Nation & World
Leading the fight for food justice
Food justice activist and author of “Farming While Black” Leah Penniman spoke of the barriers faced by young people of color who are drawn to farming.
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Science & Tech
Break it up
Researchers at Harvard and Cornell have discovered exactly how a reactive copper-nitrene catalyst could transform a strong carbon-hydrogen bonds into a carbon-nitrogen bond, a valuable building block for chemical synthesis.
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Science & Tech
A shot in the arm for vaccine research
Immunology research at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard has advanced an HIV vaccine into the clinic, and will diversify thanks to a major gift from Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon.
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Arts & Culture
Artists in residence make Harvard home
Harvard chamber music veterans, Blodgett Artists-in-Residence the Parker Quartet, will perform this Friday in Paine Hall.
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Nation & World
On climate, the young take the lead
Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.
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Campus & Community
Innovation assignment
Operation Impact gives students from across Harvard firsthand experience with education innovation start-ups.
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Nation & World
Houston, we have a solution
Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.
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Arts & Culture
Bluegrass symphony
Theresa Reno-Weber is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a former lieutenant. She deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as a sea marshal on the first U.S.C.G. cutter to circumnavigate the world. Today, she is president and CEO of Metro United Way in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Nation & World
Tillerson’s exit interview
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria and discussed diplomacy negotiation strategies during a closed-door talk for the American Secretaries of State project at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday.
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Work & Economy
Taking corporate social responsibility seriously
Outgoing Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility chair Howell Jackson, the James S. Reid Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, says changing the panel’s focus to developing guidelines can help inform Harvard’s external investment managers, and other interested investors, as they vote on a broad array of shareholder resolutions.
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Campus & Community
Mixing it up with Vincent van Gogh and friends
Student Late Night brought 1,300 University students to the Harvard Art Museums for an evening of art, music, food and more.
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Health
Protein, fat, or carbs?
Researchers applied new techniques to old samples from a 2005 dietary study to show that a focus on eating healthy rather than obsessing over a single nutrient can improve heart health.
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Nation & World
Magnolia state blooming
Emily Broad Leib is an assistant clinical professor of law, director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and deputy director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. As founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Broad Leib launched the first law school…
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Nation & World
United front
Rye Barcott is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran living in North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a group that aims to bridge partisanship in U.S. politics by supporting veterans running for office.
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Arts & Culture
Breaking artistic boundaries
Located on North Harvard Street, the ArtLab is the University’s latest Allston laboratory devoted to creative inquiry, research, and experimentation. Focused on interdisciplinary artistic collaboration, investigation, and connection, the ArtLab will be open to members of the University and the public this week.
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Nation & World
On the Brexit hot seat
On Monday the man who has emerged as a celebrity of the Brexit debate, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, came to campus during a brief break from his duty as official referee of the popularly elected legislative body.
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Campus & Community
Harvard joins Climate Action 100+
Harvard University announced that its endowment has joined Climate Action 100+, an investor-led initiative to ensure that the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take steps to address climate change.
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Nation & World
Lights, camera, access
Brickson Diamond is the co-founder of Blackhouse, a foundation that helps black writers, producers, directors, and executives gain a better foothold in the film and television industries.
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Campus & Community
Athletics for the 21st century
In a conversation between Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, the student-athlete experience, culture of programming, and department structure are discussed.
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Campus & Community
New tool removes study space stress
Thanks to a new digital tool, finding a study space at one of Harvard’s libraries is more tailor-made than time-consuming.
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Nation & World
Seeds of change
Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.
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Nation & World
Growing home
Izzy Goodchild-Michelman is a South Carolina native who spent six weeks working for Hub City Urban Farm in Spartanburg, S.C., before she started at Harvard. She helped write grants and revamped the educational Seed to Table curriculum that’s used with elementary and middle school students.
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Arts & Culture
The artist as witness
“Winslow Homer: Eyewitness,” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums, traces how the artist’s experience as an observer tasked with accurately documenting the conflict helped shape his career and informed much of his later output.
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Campus & Community
Facing up to climate change
Harvard President Larry Bacow examines the University’s multifaceted role in the battle against climate change.
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Nation & World
New report urges Congress to close its growing tech gap
Harvard Kennedy School researchers release report urging Congress to close its growing tech-knowledge gap.
