Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Nation & World
One by one, they’re making a difference
Marking the launch of “To Serve Better,” a series of stories about people committed to improving communities around the nation.
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Campus & Community
Looking ahead, informed by where he’s been
Hailing from Montana, Joe Gone is an interdisciplinary social scientist with both theoretical and applied interests and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribe. He has spent the last 25 years working with indigenous communities to rethink community-based mental health services, and to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing indigenous well-being.
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Campus & Community
How I spent my summer serving others
Over the past summer, 15 Harvard students helped communities around the country as part of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF). President Larry Bacow honored them at a luncheon this month.
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Campus & Community
Reforming the criminal justice system
In a discussion at Harvard’s Memorial Church, Atlanta-based preacher Raphael G. Warnock called mass incarceration “a scandal on the soul of America,” and dared his listeners to “imagine a different future.”
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Campus & Community
Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Athletics director to retire at end of academic year
Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, says he will retire at the end of the academic year.
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Campus & Community
Exploring services for students
A network of available resources on campus includes groups to help with academic, social, and emotional challenges.
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Science & Tech
Scientists pinpoint neural activity’s role in human longevity
The brain’s neural activity, long implicated in disorders ranging from dementia to epilepsy, also plays a role in human aging and life span, according to research led by scientists in the Blavatnik Institute.
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Arts & Culture
Urban planning and social justice
Harvard historian Lizabeth Cohen’s latest book explores the life and career of Ed Logue, a Yale-trained lawyer who became an influential city planner and applied the lessons of Roosevelt’s New Deal to urban renewal.
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Arts & Culture
All the right moves
Amirah Sackett uses dance to challenge conceptions of Muslim womanhood. The Chicago dancer, choreographer, educator, and activist combines hip-hop with Islamic themes to explore her identity and invites viewers to expand their understanding of movement as a mode of self-expression. The Gazette spoke to Sackett about the importance of education in the arts, her activism, and…
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Health
Learning not to fear
A study using mindfulness meditation showed changes over time in neural responses to pain and fear. The researchers found that changes in the hippocampus after mindfulness training were associated with enhanced ability to recall a safety memory, and thus respond in a more adaptive way.
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Nation & World
Level of campus sexual violence largely unchanged, survey says
A new survey at Harvard and 32 other institutions found that the levels of sexual violence are largely unchanged from a 2015 study. In a Q&A session, Harvard’s co-chairs of a steering committee focused on the survey’s implementation discussed the new results and what needs to happen next.
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Campus & Community
Michael Kremer wins Nobel in economics
Harvard’s Michael Kremer, the Gates Professor of Developing Societies, wins 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Health
Stigma of opioids a hurdle to solving crisis
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking…
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Nation & World
Clinton, Nixon, and lessons in preparing for impeachment
Veterans of past impeachment battles offer insiders’ looks into the politics, procedure, and strategy of investigators and lawmakers.
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Work & Economy
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online, according to a member of the Youth and Media team of researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society,
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Science & Tech
A reliable clock for your microbiome
The microbiome is a treasure trove of information about human health and disease, but getting it to reveal its secrets is challenging, especially when attempting to study it in living subjects. A new genetic “repressilator” lets scientists noninvasively study its dynamics, acting like a clock that tracks how bacterial growth changes over time with single-cell…
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Nation & World
A stand-up stands up for migrants and immigration
Cristela Alonzo weaves the experiences of her difficult-yet-joyful upbringing into stand-up humor.
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Health
Bringing women to the forefront of global health
A Harvard panel on women in the global health workforce examines ways to keep pushing for gender equity.
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Health
Harvard to launch center for autism research
Created with $20 million gift, the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard Medical School will aim to unravel the basic biology of autism and related disorders.
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Nation & World
Relief and vindication
Members of Harvard and the higher education community react to ruling in admission lawsuit.
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Nation & World
Choosing racial literacy
Although she’s only a College sophomore, Winona Guo has not only found what might be her lifelong pursuit, she’s already made a considerable impact doing it —much of it, including co-founding a nonprofit and co-writing a textbook, before she even graduated high school.
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Science & Tech
CRISPR enzyme programmed to kill viruses in human cells
Researchers have turned a CRISPR enzyme into an antiviral that can be programmed to detect and destroy RNA-based viruses in human cells.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard band at 100
To mark its 100th anniversary, the Harvard University Band will take to the field during halftime at the Cornell game on Saturday, swelling to 400 performers as alumni join the student members.
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Nation & World
A living witness to nuclear dystopia
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a nuclear disarmament advocate, shares her experience.
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Campus & Community
New innovation fund launches
The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is announcing the official launch of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF), which will provide members of the Harvard community with competitive grants to pursue projects that use technology to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
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Health
Specialists take on opioid crisis
A conference sponsored by Harvard and the University of Michigan will examine the role that stigma plays in the nation’s opioid crisis and ways it slows and alters responses.
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Arts & Culture
Nas next to Mozart? Why not?
Since 2002, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute has been documenting hip-hop’s growing legacy and culture.
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Science & Tech
Unhidden figures
LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Yvette J. Jackson
Yvette J. Jackson, who joined Harvard as an assistant professor in the Department of Music this fall, is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music, with a focus on radio operas and immersive narrative soundscape productions.
