Featured series 
Month: July 2020
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Science & Tech
Getting to the bottom of goosebumps
Researchers have found that the same cell types that cause goosebumps are responsible for controlling hair growth.
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Nation & World
The conscience of a nation
Few political leaders who successfully transition from activists to lawmakers do so without losing the fire and focus on the causes that brought them to prominence. But Civil Rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died Friday, was that kind of rare leader.
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Health
‘Before a tsunami hits’
Seven researchers discuss the importance of COVID-19 research and pandemic preparedness, the value of teamwork, and the fragility of life.
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Nation & World
A big election amid pandemic in a riven land
Harvard faculty consider the logistical and political challenges as states prepare to try to safely run a presidential election in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Campus & Community
It’s back to the stacks
100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.
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Arts & Culture
Snow White and the darkness within us
Harvard Professor Maria Tatar collected versions of the tale of Snow White from around the world and explains how they give us a way to think about what we prefer not to.
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Campus & Community
Same old labs but not
Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”
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Health
Study suggests undetected cases help speed COVID-19 spread
Modeling study offers fresh insights into stealthy nature of coronavirus and how easily it jumps from person to person.
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Arts & Culture
Fighting bigotry with art
The Wave started as a pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, but its mission changed with the rise of racism and xenophobia after pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Investing in a sustainable future
Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.
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Nation & World
U.S. abruptly drops new visa rules for international students
Facing widespread opposition led by Harvard and MIT, the government abandoned a policy requiring international students to take classes in person during the pandemic.
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Work & Economy
What’s next for the world’s largest economies?
Edward Cunningham and Philip Jordan examine China’s post COVID-19 economic recovery in an effort to better understand what’s next for America’s own attempts to rebuild.
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Nation & World
Taking action to help others in tough times
Alumni tackle issues worsened by the COVID-19 crisis, including domestic violence, clinical trial recruitment, and food insecurity.
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Nation & World
Making American schools less segregated
Graduate School of Education researchers co-wrote a report that examines parents’ support for school integration and their challenges to walk the talk.
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Science & Tech
Better vaccines are in our blood
New platform technology uses red blood cells to generate targeted immune responses in mice
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Health
Checking up on the nation
The first study to examine life expectancy across more than 65,000 census tracts in the U.S. showed significant disparities within counties and states.
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Arts & Culture
‘Two Poets and a River’: Worlds of love in the Wakhan Valley
Ethnomusicologist Richard Wolf has been contemplating the rupture between two countries in his a film about poet-singers in Tajikistan and in Afghanistan.
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Nation & World
Nathan Pusey’s battle with Joseph McCarthy
An excerpt from the new book “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” by Larry Tye.
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Campus & Community
A room of one’s own
Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.
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Health
3 takes on dealing with uncertainty
In these volatile times, three Harvard professors share insights from their fields on how to handle uncertainty.
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Campus & Community
Recognition for some risky research
The Star-Friedman Challenge is helping Harvard scientists during a time of great global uncertainty by boosting high-risk, high-impact research.
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Campus & Community
Another disappointment for MOOCs
A new study looking at the efficacy of behavioral interventions for student involvement in online courses offers some suggestions on the road forward.
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Campus & Community
Why they protest
Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.
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Nation & World
Taking China’s pulse
Ash Center research team unveils findings from long-term public opinion survey.
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Nation & World
Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules
Harvard and MIT file suit against a federal order requiring international students to attend classes in person this fall or risk deportation, visa denial.
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Campus & Community
‘I was in Harvard but not of it’
The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.
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Health
Among older adults, statin use tied to decreased risk of death
In a retrospective analysis of U.S. veterans 75 years or older, Harvard researchers found those who were prescribed statins had a 25 percent lower risk of death than their counterparts.
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Health
Health and care
HMS alum and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program founder Dr. Jim O’Connell has dedicated his life to helping the city’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Nation & World
For the character
Colonel Everett Spain is training the next generation of leaders to go through life with character and a code.
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Health
Saving lives, together
With unlikely partners by her side, Morissa Sobelson Henn is working to battle the suicide rate in Utah, a state where the tragedy is far too common.
