Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Arts & Culture
Using art to inspire action
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Climate Creatives are using art and design to create an event to help people see the urgent need to act on climate change.
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Campus & Community
Dean of continuing education set to retire
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, to retire at the end of this year.
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Nation & World
Change is collective
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Arts & Culture
Judging a book
Clint Smith is a writer and teacher whose collection of poetry, “Counting Descent,” was published in 2016. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole make meaning of education while incarcerated.
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Science & Tech
Ending ‘dead zones’
Harvard scientists are teaming up with sustainability officers and landscaping experts to test a new fertilizer that won’t wash into water supplies.
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Science & Tech
Up close and personal with neuronal networks
Researchers from Harvard University have developed an electronic chip that can perform high-sensitivity intracellular recording from thousands of connected neurons simultaneously, allowing them to identify hundreds of synaptic connections.
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Campus & Community
Why Harvard football still matters
Continuity, heritage, and ritual are central to the enduring magnetism and mystique of Harvard football.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions
Harvard signs Cool Food Pledge, vows to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.
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Campus & Community
When Gore was Widener
Before Widener, there was Gore Hall, an imposing Gothic Revival-style building once “regarded with pride as the chief distinction of the College and of the city.”
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Campus & Community
Rural schools, researchers tackle nagging problems
A look at the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, six months after it launched with a $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Nation & World
National parks’ economic benefits put at over $100B annually
A new economic analysis of the U.S. National Park system puts its value to Americans at more than $100 billion, a figure that dwarfs the financially strapped agency’s $2.5 billion budget and underpins a call to change how what has been called “America’s Best Idea” is financed.
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Nation & World
An ounce of prevention
Jim Langford is the president of the Georgia Prevention Project, the MillionMile Greenway, and the Coosawattee Foundation. For the past decade he has been raising awareness about the rising drug epidemic in his state.
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Campus & Community
Seeking solid return on philanthropy
The Gazette spoke with John Palfrey, former Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and vice dean for Library and Information Resources at HLS, and former executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society about how his Harvard time prepared him for his new role to lead one of the country’s largest…
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Nation & World
Emerald city
Alexis Wheeler founded the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program (CAP) to help illuminate the path to college for high-potential high school students from Western Washington school districts that serve predominantly low-income populations.
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Nation & World
Mail priorities
Madelyn Petersen explored her passions for business and human rights and community lawyering at Harvard Law School. She is currently interning with the Corporate Accountability Lab in Chicago before starting a clerkship with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Campus & Community
Global strike comes to Harvard
Harvard students and those from Cambridge public schools joined their voices in a rally calling for climate change action Friday on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza.
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Nation & World
Improving the odds
Erica Mosca founded Leaders in Training (LIT) in 2012, an organization that helps prospective first-generation college students from East Las Vegas high schools finish their degrees and work toward becoming leaders in their home state. She is herself a first-generation college graduate and a social justice advocate.
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Science & Tech
The future of mind control
A new paper explores why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat brain disorders, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities.
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Campus & Community
Harvard microbe hunter wins Blavatnik Award
Emily Balskus will be honored on Sept. 23 with the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for her work in tracking never-before-seen chemistry to specific bacteria in the human gut.
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Campus & Community
A link across campus
Harvard Link is an application that for the first time funnels University-related events, news, organizations, and faculty and staff contact information into a centralized data bank. The system then analyzes that data and creates personalized dashboards for users based on their professional interests.
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Health
Expressing genes
Harvard University staff member Marnie Gelbart is the director of programs for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) at Harvard Medical School, and is a co-principal investigator of Building Awareness, Respect, and Confidence through Genetics (ARC), a five-year NIH-funded project through which pgEd is developing curricula on identity and inclusion working with teachers in urban…
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Health
Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School said despite progress at making college student bodies more diverse, work still needs to be done to make students of all backgrounds feel welcome, a key step in heading off increased rates of mental illness such students experience on campus.
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Science & Tech
Solve ocean’s troubles and climate change too?
Experts from Harvard and beyond gathered Monday to discuss the oceans’ plight in a warming world, offering hopeful solutions despite the often bleak assessment prompted by warming, pollution, acidification, and coral bleaching.
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Nation & World
Leading the fight for food justice
Food justice activist and author of “Farming While Black” Leah Penniman spoke of the barriers faced by young people of color who are drawn to farming.
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Science & Tech
Break it up
Researchers at Harvard and Cornell have discovered exactly how a reactive copper-nitrene catalyst could transform a strong carbon-hydrogen bonds into a carbon-nitrogen bond, a valuable building block for chemical synthesis.
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Science & Tech
A shot in the arm for vaccine research
Immunology research at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard has advanced an HIV vaccine into the clinic, and will diversify thanks to a major gift from Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon.
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Arts & Culture
Artists in residence make Harvard home
Harvard chamber music veterans, Blodgett Artists-in-Residence the Parker Quartet, will perform this Friday in Paine Hall.
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Nation & World
On climate, the young take the lead
Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.
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Campus & Community
Innovation assignment
Operation Impact gives students from across Harvard firsthand experience with education innovation start-ups.
