Featured series 
Year: 2019
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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.
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Nation & World
Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson
Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson.
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Science & Tech
A precise chemical fingerprint of the Amazon
A group of researchers are using a drone-based chemical monitoring system to track the health of the Amazon in the face of global climate change and human-caused deforestation and burning.
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Science & Tech
Playing our song
Samuel Mehr has long been interested in questions of what music is, how music works, and why music exists. To help find the answers, he’s created the Music Lab, an online, citizen-science project aimed at understanding not just how the human mind interprets music, but why music is a virtually ubiquitous feature of human societies.
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Campus & Community
A flip of the switch to mitigate climate change
The Arnold Arboretum and the city of Boston celebrated the nearly complete Weld Hill Solar Project at today’s “switch-throwing” ceremony.
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Nation & World
Humanizing global problems
Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people.
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Science & Tech
A silly-sounding prize for some serious science
Harvard-trained researchers win Golden Goose Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Campus & Community
Lending veterans a hand
Harvard has increased efforts in recent years to recruit veterans, working with the Defense Department and conducting outreach via community college centers for former members of the military.
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Campus & Community
Gen Ed shopping spree
Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that…
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Arts & Culture
Uncommon coinage
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi recently retired after almost two decades as the museums’ first curator of ancient coins. During her tenure she helped bring roughly 2,000 other coins to Harvard, small-scale works of art adorned with mythical creatures, ancient architecture, biblical references, important persons, and poignant dates.
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Science & Tech
An umbrella to combat warming
Harvard’s Keutsch Research Group is working on a controversial idea that might someday be our best hope against climate change: stratospheric aerosol injection.
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