Year: 2019

  • Nation & World

    How workplace harassment programs fail

    Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?

    Silhouette of a business woman with documents
  • Health

    Gut microbes eat our medication

    Study published in Science shows that gut microbes can chew up medications, with serious side effects.

    Professor looks over the shoulder of grad student working in the lab
  • Arts & Culture

    A pastoral romance

    Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will stage a fresh take on “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen’s tale of 19th-century love, on June 23 courtesy of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project and playwright Kate Hamill.

    The cast of Pride in Prejudice walking through the Arboretum
  • Campus & Community

    Cooking up a TV career

    Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.

    Contestants cooking on Masterchef
  • Campus & Community

    From lecture to comedy sketch

    Students see professors stand up in front of a class every day, but they don’t often see them do stand-up onstage. The Harvard College Stand Up Comic Society has changed that with the Harvard faculty comedy showcase.

    Jonathan Walton delivers a comedy routine for charity.
  • Campus & Community

    Investing in Allston

    Harvard President Larry Bacow helped honor 16 local nonprofits at the 11th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund ceremony at the Ed Portal in Allston.

    Five people posing for a photo; man in the middle holds an award certificate.
  • Arts & Culture

    ‘There they are, on our dinner plates’

    Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.

    Illustration of farm animals in a field.
  • Health

    ‘An era where it has never not been about drugs’

    The Gazette spoke with History of Science Professor Anne Harrington about her new book, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” which traces the treatment of mental disorders from its early years to the Prozac Nation of today.

    Anne Harrington portrait
  • Campus & Community

    FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.

    Harvard gate
  • Health

    Chemists’ breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent

    Chemists at Harvard and Eisai, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, have synthesized halichondrin, a potent anti-cancer agent found naturally in sea sponges. Because of the molecule’s “fiendishly complex” design, the feat took three decades.

    Yoshito Kishi sitting in his office
  • Campus & Community

    New research campus seeks a developer

    The Harvard Allston Land Co. is requesting proposals for the initial phase of an Enterprise Research Campus on 14 acres on Western Avenue in Allston.

    Building under construction in front of a sunset
  • Campus & Community

    Three cheers for Harvard Heroes

    Supporters packed Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall to cheer for the 61 Harvard Heroes.

    Larry Bacow at the podium onstage in Sanders Theater.
  • Arts & Culture

    Summer in the city

    Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.

    A visitor takes a photo of a painting on the wall at the Harvard Art Museum.
  • Work & Economy

    The economist who connected across politics

    Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard, major political adviser, and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, died Tuesday at age 79.

    Faculty portrait of Martin Feldstein
  • Campus & Community

    Seeing the light of independence

    Talking to graduates from the first class of the College Success program, a collaboration between the Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind.

    Jordan Scheffer touches the John Harvard statue.
  • Health

    Put down those cold cuts

    Longitudinal study associates increasing consumption of red meat, especially processed meat, over eight years with a higher risk of death in the subsequent eight years.

    Meats on a charcuterie board
  • Health

    Streamlining care through electronic consultations

    Mass. General researchers have found that electronic consultations in allergy and immunology can simplify the process of providing the most appropriate care, often reducing the need for in-person specialist visits.

    Overhead view of a doctor working on a laptop
  • Campus & Community

    Changes coming to Gen Ed

    This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.

    Amanda Claybaugh portrait
  • Health

    As measles cases crack 1,000, a look at what to do

    Harvard public health and public safety experts recommended public education, elimination of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for schoolkids, and potentially more severe penalties as a way to get parents to comply with measles vaccination guidelines.

    Juliette Kayyem and Barry Bloom.
  • Campus & Community

    Afsahi named chief development officer for FAS

    Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced a new dean of development: Armin Afsahi, who has led successful campaigns at the University of Denver, the University of California, San Diego, and Georgetown University.

    Armin Afsahi.
  • Nation & World

    The sparring over trade

    Far more than avocados and Modelo beer will be affected if the U.S. follows through on threats to start taxing Mexico, China, and other countries. Sustained disputes could destabilize the global economy, prompt an economic downturn, and pose national security risks.

    Workers sort freshly harvested bananas to be exported, at a farm in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico.
  • Science & Tech

    The science of the artificial

    Researchers propose a new field of study — “machine behavior” — to look at artificial intelligence through the lens of biology, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and social sciences.

    David Parkes.
  • Arts & Culture

    An unanticipated juxtaposition

    A new pairing on a second-floor wall overlooking the Harvard Art Museums’ courtyard has placed self-portraits of contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall alongside that of 17th-century Dutch painter Nicolas Régnier.

    Works by Kerry James Marshall and Nicolas Régnier viewed through archways at Harvard Art Museums.
  • Campus & Community

    Colonial North America at Harvard Library

    A digitized collection from 14 repositories around Harvard University contains almost 650,000 images of handmade materials from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here’s a peek.

    Ebenezer Storer Pocket Globe.
  • Campus & Community

    Wyss donates third major gift

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today the latest gift of $131 million from its founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65.

  • Nation & World

    Women’s World Cup cheat sheet

    Chris Hamblin, a Bristol, England, native and the Branca Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Soccer, analyzes the teams and players to watch during the world’s biggest soccer tournament.

  • Health

    Aging population increases energy use

    Two global trends — the aging of the world’s population and the warming of its atmosphere — are set to collide in the decades to come, new work by an MGH and HMS researcher shows.

    Hossein Estiri portrait
  • Campus & Community

    Partnering means more at the library

    Harvard Library’s key alliances create a vast universe of information for Harvard faculty and students.

    Library shelves
  • Science & Tech

    Beyond the cloud

    Every day, more and more information is filed in less and less space. Even the cloud will eventually run out of space, can’t thwart all hackers, and gobbles up energy. Now, a new way to store information could stably house data for millions of years.

    Brian Cafferty works in the lab.
  • Science & Tech

    No laughing matter

    A recent study shows that nitrous-oxide emissions from thawing Alaskan permafrost are about 12 times higher than previously assumed. About a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost, which is thawing at an increasing rate. And, even though researchers are monitoring carbon dioxide and methane, no one seems to be monitoring N2O, the…

    Aerial photo of Alaska