Featured series 
Month: November 2020
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Campus & Community
Goodbye to ‘Mr. Cambridge’
Frank H. Duehay ’55, M.A.T. ’58, C.A.S. ’65, Ed.D. ’68, I.O.P. ’82, who was assistant dean and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 20. He served 36 years as an elected official in Cambridge and was elected three times as mayor.
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Arts & Culture
A beloved holiday theater tradition, remote but not forgotten
A.R.T.’s annual holiday show, “Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure,” is a joyful respite. The 55-minute streamed event is available through Jan. 4.
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Campus & Community
Guido Goldman dies at age 83
Guido Goldman, who spent his life working for trans-Atlantic cooperation, died Nov. 30 at 83.
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Arts & Culture
Hitting the right note
The four-day Student Composers Festival begins this week, featuring work by 30 Harvard students and recent alumni. The festival is the creation of Veronica Leahy ’23.
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Arts & Culture
‘Garden’ party
“The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.
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Science & Tech
From fins to limbs and water to land
Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.
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Science & Tech
An ionic forcefield for nanoparticles
For the first time in mice, researchers have coated nanoparticles with an ionic liquid that allows the nanoparticles to survive the immune system and deliver drugs to their targeted spot.
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Science & Tech
Evidence of the interconnectedness of global climate
Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.
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Nation & World
Giving thanks for what, exactly?
Natives at Harvard College held the Indigenous Inspirers Panel two days before Thanksgiving to discuss how Indigenous people celebrate Thanksgiving. Among the panelists were North Dakota State Rep. Ruth Buffalo, Sadada Jackson, Autumn Peltier, Chenae Bullock, Pua Case, and Tara Houska.
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Campus & Community
Four recognized for service and leadership
The Harvard Extension Alumni Association recognized Frederica Williams, C.S.S. ’91, with the 2020 Dean Michael Shinagel Award for Service to Others; and three other alumni with its Emerging Leaders award.
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Nation & World
What will the new post-pandemic normal look like?
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing changes big and small to the economy, to society, even to the trajectory of young lives. Harvard experts weigh in on some key areas.
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Science & Tech
Live tracker notes COVID cases, deaths by congressional districts
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Center for Geographic Analysis worked with Microsoft to create a live tracker that monitors the status of COVID cases, broken down by congressional district, to help officials develop testing and vaccine deployment strategies in their areas.
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Campus & Community
Easing children’s COVID-19 anxieties
Recent Harvard grads created an educational website featuring a South Asian protagonist for children to assuage worries and answer questions.
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Campus & Community
Physics Department loses a center of gravity
Dedicated and beloved Harvard Physics Department staffer Carol Davis retires after five decades.
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Campus & Community
2020 Rhodes, Mitchell Scholars named
Six Harvard College seniors have been awarded 2020 Rhodes Scholarships and a senior and recent alum were named George J. Mitchell Scholars.
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Nation & World
So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.
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Health
U.S. failed to control pandemic, but vaccination provides ‘chance to get next phase right’
Experts said the complex rollout of a coronavirus vaccine gives the U.S. a chance for a win after the virus gained the upper hand in its initial phase.
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Campus & Community
Harvard comes together to support next-gen students
With more than 15 percent of Harvard College students being the first in their families to pursue a college degree, the University has established the Next Gen Initiative to help first-generation, lower-income students overcome institutional barriers, address shared challenges, and find ways to integrate opportunities.
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Nation & World
Upgrading the State Department
Report by Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project says revamped U.S. diplomatic service should be less politicized, more professional, more diverse.
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Campus & Community
The election in the classroom
Data-driven course on election analytics lets students take a deeper dive into elections past and present.
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Campus & Community
Making higher education anti-racist
Antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi took part in the online discussion about antiracism in higher education.
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Nation & World
Reining in growing powers of the presidency
Bob Bauer ’73 and Jack Goldsmith propose what they say are long-overdue reforms to the Office of the President.
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Campus & Community
121 organizations, 390 volunteers, and 1,700 stamps
How the Harvard Votes Challenge initiative helped tens of thousands of voters participate in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
Talking pandemic across borders
Two Harvard alumni created the Bridging Borders Project to assemble the perspectives of world leaders and exchange health policy ideas about the pandemic.
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Arts & Culture
Museums of Native culture wrestle with decolonizing
A panel of museum experts discuss the ways in which museums, which are quintessential colonial institutions, can recreate their missions and practices to respond to social unrest and demands for inclusion and representation.
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Campus & Community
How they leveled the playing field
Zachary Nowak’s fall course, HIST 1852: “The Game: College Sports as History,” had current students interview 99 former Harvard athletes, 96 of whom were women, and used the resulting transcripts as the foundations for their final papers.
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Health
‘A terrific first start’
Barry Bloom from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health offers context about the news that two experimental vaccines appear to confer a high level of protection from the coronavirus.
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Nation & World
What the election may tell us about the future
The five panelists on a Tuesday roundtable discussed “Implications of the 2020 Election.”
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Nation & World
How politicians practice ‘racial distancing’ with communities of color
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, author of “Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics,” offered a view that went beyond the Trump era.
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Nation & World
What do Trump’s election denials and flurry of firings add up to?
What is President Trump up to with his ongoing purge of top Pentagon and cybersecurity officials and his false assertions that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as the 46th president? Experts say it’s not clear yet, but intelligence and national security risks abound.
