Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Campus & Community
Emma Dench on helping graduate students succeed
During her first full year as the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emma Dench has been focused on connecting students from around the University to GSAS, and helping them connect with her.
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Campus & Community
‘The first superhero that I ever came to know’
Incoming Harvard medical and dental students talk about the people who helped them most.
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Science & Tech
A ‘Goldilocks zone’ for planet size
Researchers have redefined the lower size limit for planets to maintain surface liquid water for long periods of time, extending the so-called habitable zone for small, low-gravity planets.
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Nation & World
Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
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Arts & Culture
Fall into art
A sampling of the season’s best in local music, theater, and visual arts.
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Campus & Community
Hometown girl makes good by making hometown better
Roslindale native Kate Swain Smith is the fourth student to become a fellow since the Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship program debuted in 2016.
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Arts & Culture
Five lessons from Toni Morrison
Harvard Divinity School pays tribute to the late Toni Morrison during its convocation.
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Campus & Community
Presenting the new Lowell House
The two-year renovation preserved historical character and added a few 21st-century upgrades.
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Science & Tech
A SWIFTer way to build organs
A new technique called SWIFT (sacrificial writing into functional tissue) ultimately may be used therapeutically to repair and replace human organs with lab-grown versions containing patients’ own cells.
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Campus & Community
How I wrote my Harvard essay
Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Harvard first-years reflect on the agony and the ecstasy of writing their admissions essay.
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Campus & Community
When a sigh isn’t just a sigh
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the spoof of the Nobel Prize that honors obscure science research, is set for Sept. 12 at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Black hole project nets Breakthrough Prize
The nearly 350 astronomers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates who worked for more than a decade to capture the first-ever image of a black hole have been named the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Campus & Community
Two receive Roslyn Abramson Award
Ya-Chieh Hsu and Durba Mitra receive Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
New director named for University Health Services
Professor and physician Giang T. Nguyen, head of student health services at Penn, viewed as a champion of diversity and inclusion.
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Campus & Community
Recipe for a new Gen Ed course
Harvard’s new Gen Ed courses tackle subjects from racial justice and philosophy to music and engineering.
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Health
PTSD linked to increased risk of ovarian cancer
A new study finds that women who have greater numbers of PTSD symptoms are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.
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Science & Tech
Lessons in learning
Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think
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Campus & Community
Growing connections
For her Service Starts with Summer project, South Carolina native Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’23 spent six weeks working on a farm, revamping the educational Seed to Table curriculum that serves elementary and middle-school students.
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Campus & Community
Big statue on campus
Whether you’re standing at the Harvard Statue in the morning, noon, or evening, the scene is almost always the same: Crowds of five, 10, or 50 converge to take a photo with the statue. For some, the statue is the embodiment of the University. For others a photo with it is just a box to…
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Science & Tech
Hunters, herders, companions: Breeding dogs has reordered their brains
Erin Hecht, who joined the faculty in January, has published her first paper on our canine comrades in the Journal of Neuroscience, finding that different breeds have different brain organizations owing to human cultivation of specific traits.
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Campus & Community
Bacow urges listeners to welcome civil discourse
Universities should be centers for open debate and discussion, where different opinions and perspectives are welcomed, Harvard President Larry Bacow said during the first Morning Prayers of the fall term.
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Campus & Community
The gathering of the first-years
Harvard College’s Class of 2023 assembled for convocation under threatening skies. Harvard President Larry Bacow urged the students to avoid stepping-stones and embrace the unexpected.
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Campus & Community
At your service
More than 1,500 first-year students rolled up their sleeves and went to work across Greater Boston on Thursday for the Class of 2023 Day of Service.
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Campus & Community
If at first you don’t succeed…
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan came to HLS to impart words of wisdom and encouragement to first-year law students as one of the highlights of the orientation week.
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Campus & Community
Their favorite things
The Gazette asks first-year students to name the most cherished thing in their suitcases.
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Science & Tech
Fighting flora with fauna
Scientists at the Arnold Arboretum are employing a species of predator moth to fight the invasive swallow-wort vine.
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Arts & Culture
Last dance, last chance
The curtain comes down Sept. 7 on the immersive, disco-insistent “Donkey Show” after a decade-long run at A.R.T.
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Campus & Community
The marvel of fruit rotting
“Fruits in Decay,” a new exhibit in the Glass Flowers gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, depicts the marvel of rotting fruit.
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Science & Tech
Pancreas on a chip
Islet-on-a-chip technology allows clinicians to easily determine the therapeutic value of beta cells for any given patient.
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Nation & World
Amazon blazes could speed climate change
Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.
