Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Health
As the end nears, who’s in control?
Advocates and opponents of medical-aid-in-dying laws, also called physician-assisted death, gathered at Harvard Medical School for a two-day conference organized by the HMS Center for Bioethics.
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Science & Tech
Identifying exotic properties
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.
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Science & Tech
Laying some groundwork for environmental protection
The Wyss Institute has developed a sheet pile driving robot, Romu, that works in uneven terrain to build metal walls that can act as dams, retaining walls, or building foundations.
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Health
Weighing in on workplace wellness programs
In the first major multisite randomized controlled trial of workplace wellness programs, researchers found that while they may help people change certain behaviors, they do little to improve overall health or lower health care spending.
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Nation & World
Pros at the con
Psychologist Maria Konnikova ’05, who studies the workings of con artists, talks about what underlies some recent pop culture scams and why we’re so fascinated by stories about them.
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Arts & Culture
Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
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Health
Detecting DNA defects
A new algorithm designed by HMS scientists can be incorporated into standard genetic tests to successfully identify patients harboring a tumor-fueling DNA repair defect found in multiple cancers treatable with existing drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the challenge
MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.
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Campus & Community
A healthy twofer
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
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Campus & Community
A leg up
The 13th annual Celebration of Scholarship dinner brought together brought together students who have benefited from financial aid and some of the many donors who support the program.
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Campus & Community
Running for a purpose
Harvard runners run the Boston Marathon to overcome challenges, be part of a community, and give back
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Nation & World
When it comes to politics, what’s love got to do with it?
The American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur C. Brooks and University Professor Danielle Allen agree to disagree (and sometimes to agree) in lively exchange over the political necessity of love.
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Nation & World
Journalist, whistleblower, or dangerous security leak?
Legal, intelligence, and news analysts discuss the arrest in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces conspiracy charges by U.S. federal prosecutors for the disclosure of classified national security documents stolen by Pfc. Chelsea Manning
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Campus & Community
Donoff to step down as dean of School of Dental Medicine
Bruce Donoff, dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine for 28 years, announced today that he will step down from the position effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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Campus & Community
Putting compassion into action
At an event marking the 40th anniversary of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, faculty, students, and clients recall what it has meant to them.
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Campus & Community
Faculty diversity continues to grow
Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.
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Campus & Community
Striking lessons from the 1960s
The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.
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Arts & Culture
Behind the ‘Thrones’
A course at Harvard teaches students about the real-world Game of Thrones.
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Science & Tech
Tackling climate change through study
Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, now in its fifth year, is awarding seven research projects $1 million in grants.
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Campus & Community
Overseeing progress
On a recent afternoon, the Gazette sat down with Susan Carney, current president of the Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown, president-elect for 2019-20, to talk about the Overseers’ role, their…
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Science & Tech
‘Seeing the unseeable’
A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.
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Science & Tech
A black hole, revealed
Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”
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Health
Vitamin D may slow progression of metastatic colorectal cancer
The first randomized clinical trial of vitamin D in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer found that high doses of supplements combined with chemotherapy delayed disease progression.
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Health
Healthy diet helps older men maintain physical function
A new study shows that older men who maintain healthier diets are 25 percent less likely to develop physical impairment with aging.
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Nation & World
What would Dick do?
A panel including Al Gore, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Porter, and Harvey Fineberg, with Graham Allison moderating, discussed what Richard Neustadt would have thought of the Trump presidency on the 100th anniversary of the late Kennedy School professor’s birth.
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Campus & Community
Provost convenes task force to address students’ psychological well-being
With mental health issues among young people increasing both at the University and nationwide, Harvard’s Office of the Provost has convened a task force to assess and respond to students’ psychological well-being.
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Arts & Culture
‘East Side’ story
Student-penned musical “The East Side” puts the spotlight on the Harvard Asian Student Arts Project.
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Health
Hold the soda, hold the fat shaming
Health and policy expert Sara Bleich has found that when trying to change the way people eat, being prescriptive isn’t always the answer.
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Campus & Community
Per Nykrog, 88
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 2, 2019, a tribute to the life and service of the late Per Nykrog was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School professor retains her grade-school wonder
Harvard Divinity School Professor Anne Monius’ determination to get to Harvard started on a grammar school field trip. Today she inspires students to love learning as much as she does.
