Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Campus & Community
Two named to lead Overseers
Michael Brown ’83, J.D. ’88, and Lesley Friedman Rosenthal ’86, J.D. ’89, chosen to head Harvard’s Board of Overseers.
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Nation & World
A good look at bad romance
A conference organized by Harvard graduate students explores the ethics of love and desire after #MeToo.
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Arts & Culture
Using humor to make the connection
Before an Askwith Hall audience, stars from “Kim’s Convenience” and “Fresh Off the Boat” explored how the landscape is shifting for Asian stories, defying stereotype and allowing authentic identities.
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Arts & Culture
How much would you pay for a masterpiece?
To get at exactly how the art market and the public drive up the cost of fine art, the Gazette spoke with some experts in the field.
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Science & Tech
Scientists are blown away by hurricane experiment’s results
Three decades after scientists intentionally knocked down nearly 300 trees at Harvard Forest, nature is still surprising as experiments continue.
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Health
DNA testing could save young lives through early intervention
During her Radcliffe fellowship, pediatric oncologist Lisa Diller is studying the implications of genetic testing in newborns, and planning research that focuses on testing babies for gene changes associated with cancers known to strike the very young.
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Campus & Community
Reaching new heights
The Heights sits on the top floor of the Smith Campus Center, offering sweeping views and familiar favorites with a twist.
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Campus & Community
A distinct honor
The Dean’s Distinction Awards mark a decade of staff recognition in FAS.
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Science & Tech
‘Any patient with any disease’
Developed through Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, an innovative immune-silent stem cell technology could lead to novel cell therapies to treat “any patient with any disease.”
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Campus & Community
Rethinking inclusion
An interview with Anthony Jack, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, on his new book “The Privileged Poor,” about the struggles of disadvantaged students at elite schools.
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Campus & Community
Home and economics
Talia Gillis, a Harvard graduate student is enrolled in two doctoral programs and raising newborn twins.
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Nation & World
‘A very, very dangerous moment in our country’s history’
Author Daniel Ziblatt analyzes the worldwide movement toward autocracy and concludes American democracy is safe — for now.
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Arts & Culture
Photos reveal nature’s wonder at Arnold Arboretum
The elegance and rhythm of nature powerfully captured through photographer Chris Morgan’s lens is revealed at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Demystifying the workplace
Harvard welcomes Boston Public School students to speak to staff about their goals and gain perspective about college and career.
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Health
How to feed 10 billion by midcentury
A panel of experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed how the globe might feed an estimated human population of 10 billion by midcentury and suggested a diet high in plant foods, low in red meat, as well as a host of reforms to how food is produced and distributed today.
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Arts & Culture
The greatest migration
The peopling of Polynesia’s far-flung islands may be the most epic migration story of all time. Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson’s book “Sea People” examines the latest evidence of who the Polynesians were and how they did it.
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Science & Tech
A gold star for going green
Harvard received an award at the Climate Leadership Conference in Baltimore, recognizing its commitment to the environment.
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Campus & Community
Studying Japan from ancient to modern
A revered, 700-year-old religious relic and the present-day crisis of declining births are just two of the many focuses of some Harvard researchers.
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Campus & Community
What’s in a word? The future history of English
A history of English course hosts its own March Madness-style tournament for newly coined words in the English lexicon.
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Health
Cells recall the way they were
Study in mice reveals that adult tissues retain a memory of which genes are activated during very early development, and that that memory can be recovered. Under certain conditions, adult cells play their developmental “movie” in a slow rewind, reactivating fetal genes. These findings have important implications for regenerative medicine and cancer research.
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Health
Cutting skin cancer risk by 75 percent
A treatment previously shown to clear the precancerous skin lesions called actinic keratosis now appears to reduce the chance that the treated skin will develop squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs), the second-most-common form of skin cancer.
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Arts & Culture
Curating a classic ‘Genji’ exhibit at the Met
Harvard’s Melissa McCormick takes “The Tale of the Genji,” one of the world’s first novels, from classroom to gallery.
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Nation & World
In China, Bacow emphasizes common values
Harvard President Larry Bacow, on a 10-day trip to the Far East, tells audience at Peking University in China of commonalities, and expresses hope for continued collaboration.
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Science & Tech
Seeing the forest for the trees
Novelist Richard Powers’ “The Overstory” features trees as key characters in an entwined tale of human life and our impact on the natural world. He will speak at the Arnold Arboretum and the Mahindra Humanities Center later this month.
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Campus & Community
Currier photo exhibit celebrates women
A new photo exhibit is on display at Currier House to highlight its namesake, Audrey Bruce Currier ‘56, other Radcliffe alumnae, and the House’s unique history.
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Health
Sleep, heart disease link leads from brain to marrow
New research from Massachusetts General Hospital traces a previously unknown pathway from poor sleep to an increase in the fatty plaques that line blood vessels in atherosclerosis, a key feature of cardiovascular disease.
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Nation & World
Probing the roots and rise of white supremacy
Adam Serwer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Shorenstein fellow, discusses the lasting appeal of white supremacist ideology in light of an avowed white supremacist’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people and injured dozens more.
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Nation & World
Student achievement gap same after nearly 50 years, study says
Disadvantaged students today are doing no better compared to their advantaged peers than they were in 1954, despite countless programs to bridge this gap. The blame, say researchers, lies in a decline in teacher quality.
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Work & Economy
Playing by the numbers
The student-run Harvard Sports Analysis Collective is getting notice in the press and among fans for its empirical analyses of sports questions big and small.
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Health
Sickly sweet
A long-term study, led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that the more sugar-sweetened beverages people consumed, the greater their risk of premature death — particularly death from cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent from cancer.
