Featured series 
Month: October 2019
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Health
How a doctor learned to become a caregiver
Harvard Professor Arthur Kleinman’s wife, Joan, began to struggle with a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease at 59.
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Health
Study suggests how measles depletes body’s immune memory
A new Harvard study shows measles wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of antibodies against an array of viruses and bacteria, depleting a child’s previous immunity, which underscores the importance of measles vaccination.
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Science & Tech
A clue to biodiversity?
An analysis of 20 butterfly genomes found evidence that many butterfly species — including distantly related species — show a surprisingly high amount of gene flow between them, Harvard researchers found.
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Campus & Community
Assessing Harvard’s culture
The organizers of Harvard’s recent Pilot Pulse Survey discuss respondents’ answers across campus on issues of inclusion and belonging.
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Nation & World
Angela Davis looks back
In a wide-ranging conversation Tuesday afternoon, activist Angela Davis reflected on a range of topics, from how music and art can help transform and create community to the challenges of talking about race in America to the need for prison reform.
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Nation & World
American foreign policy in flux
Former career Ambassador Victoria Nuland, a top State Department expert on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian affairs, discusses the chaos in Syria, Putin’s biggest fear, and what it was like to be “Patient Zero” of Russia’s phone-hacking attacks.
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Work & Economy
From the playing field to the boardroom
Accomplished professional women who were once serious athletes discussed the lessons of sports in the HBS forum “Sports as a Classroom: Women in Sports, Leadership and Empowerment.”
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Arts & Culture
Teens tackle question of freedom in America
Boston-area high school students will perform “Freedom Acts” on Nov. 2‒3. As part of the A.R.T.’s Proclamation Project, the play tackles questions of what hypocrisies and contradictions exist in what we think of as American freedom.
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Health
Bringing the Bone Box back to life
Countway Library is looking to revive the Bone Box program, which originally let anatomy students check out real human bones.
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Campus & Community
Films that go bump in the night
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.
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Nation & World
How slavery still shadows health care
“400 Years of Inequality” focused on how the effects of slavery have persisted, maintaining a basic disparity in health care.
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Science & Tech
Riding the quantum computing ‘wave’
Google engineers claimed to have created a quantum computer that exhibited “quantum supremacy.” The Gazette spoke with Harvard Quantum Initiative Co-Director Mikhail Lukin about the achievement, about similar work at Harvard.
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Health
Power and pitfalls of gene editing
CRISPR gene-editing technology has conquered the lab and is poised to lead to new treatments for human disease. Experts consider the promise and peril at Radcliffe.
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Arts & Culture
Inside the house of screams
In a class called “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” Harvard students put their imaginations to work creating tales of demons, monsters, and ghosts.
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Science & Tech
Inspired by jumping spiders
Inspired by the depth perception of spiders fixing to pounce on prey from a distance, Harvard researchers design a sensor that could be used in microrobotics, augmented reality, wearable devices.
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Campus & Community
Frames of mind: A window onto Harvard’s campus
A window Into Harvard’s campus through the lens of a camera.
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Science & Tech
A rose by any other name — could be confusing
Kanchi Gandhi is one of a small group of global experts who referees the rules of naming new plant species.
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Arts & Culture
The story of a museum and of America
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recalls his challenges in founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Nation & World
The conservative quandary
During a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School, several leading conservative voices discuss why the movement’s political tenets still matter, even for a political party loyal to President Trump.
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Campus & Community
A fairly bright fiscal 2019
Harvard closed the 2019 fiscal year last June 30 with a surplus. Harvard officials discuss the details of how the University got there.
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Arts & Culture
Persistence, courage take the dais
Rapper Queen Latifah, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall, and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith were honored with this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medals.
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Science & Tech
Both marathoner and sprinter
Scientists from Harvard and the University of Virginia have developed the first robotic tuna that can accurately mimic both the highly efficient swimming style of tuna, and their high speed.
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Health
A timely triage test for TB
A team of researchers has developed a point-of-care TB test that costs only $2 and gives results in about 30 minutes, lowering the barrier to care in low-resource settings and potentially saving millions of lives.
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Arts & Culture
Writing Black lives
“Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.
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Science & Tech
My three suns
Harvard astronomers are studying a newly discovered rocky planet with three suns called LTT1445Ab in the hopes it will provide valuable insights into Earth.
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Nation & World
A global look at LGBT violence and bias
Q&A with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Nation & World
Illuminating the path to college
Harvard’s Project Teach helps students envision a future that includes higher education.
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Science & Tech
Learning apps for parents that help kids
Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Joe Blatt and Meredith Rowe conducted a study that developed learning apps to create foundations for literacy in young children.
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Nation & World
Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’
New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.
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Science & Tech
Defending science in a post-fact era
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, author of “Why Trust Science?,” discusses the five pillars necessary for science to be considered trustworthy, the evidentiary value of self-reporting, and her Red State Pledge.
