Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
Crowd-sourcing the story of a people
Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.
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Health
The value of talking to strangers — and nodding acquaintances
How COVID-19 is evaporating our casual connections and taking an important source of happiness.
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Nation & World
Defining a centennial
A panel discussed the political experiences of Black women in the years between the ratification of the 19th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Health
Breathing freely
Mass General study shows the benefits of inhaled nitric oxide therapy for pregnant patients with severe and critical COVID-19.
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Science & Tech
Synthetic lining in small intestine may help treat diabetes, obesity
Researchers have developed a synthetic lining that could deliver drugs in a sustained way to the small intestine, offering hope for those suffering from lactose intolerance, diabetes, and obesity.
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Campus & Community
National Science Foundation awards $20M to launch artificial-intelligence institute
Harvard partners with MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts to launch NSF artificial intelligence institute.
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Campus & Community
GSAS students come to campus
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed students to campus, with 50 populating its four residence halls.
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Campus & Community
Using data science for social good
In April, the Harvard College Data Analytics Group, a student-led nonprofit organization, created 17 COVID-19 response teams that partnered with 16 organizations and municipal governments to tackle elements of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Campus & Community
Two online classes aim to bridge all Harvard students, Schools
Professors Michael Sandel and Daniel Schrag are inviting all Harvard degree students to join in two University-wide courses this fall designed to spark conversation and mutual learning across the campuses.
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Nation & World
How rape culture shapes whether a survivor is believed
New political science research from Harvard Kennedy School faculty and alumna finds that rape culture bias not only is real, but it shapes how people determine what a believable case looks like, who is likely a victim, and in what circumstances rape is less likely to take place.
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Campus & Community
In a word
Stories from Harvard faculty, students, staff about writing’s place in a pandemic and playing host to Renée Fleming.
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Science & Tech
Cutting surgical robots down to size
In a collaboration between Harvard and Sony, engineers have brought surgical robotics down to the microscale by creating a new, origami-inspired miniature manipulator to improve precision and control.
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Health
$30M commitment supports development of therapies for viral infections
Harvard University and AbbVie have announced a $30 million collaborative research alliance to study and develop novel therapies against emergent viral infections, with a focus on those caused by coronaviruses and by viruses that lead to hemorrhagic fever.
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Campus & Community
Sheree Ohen named first FAS associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Sheree Ohen has been named the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of FAS, announced today. Ohen will begin her tenure Sept. 28.
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Nation & World
Faith in the ballot
How white evangelicals tour the nation’s capital and redeem a Christian America.
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Campus & Community
Defending those yearning to breathe free
Housed at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, the Harvard Representation Initiative was created to provide legal representation to undocumented members of the Harvard community, as well as others whose immigration status is at risk.
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Campus & Community
New Overseers, Alumni Association directors elected
Five alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
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Nation & World
Staying covered
Affordable Care Act key to keeping people insured amid COVID 19-related job losses, study shows.
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Campus & Community
Former U.S. Ambassador Walter Carrington dies at 90
Walter Charles Carrington ’52, J.D. ’55, passed away on Aug. 11 at the age of 90. Carrington was a former U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Nigeria and civil rights activist.
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Science & Tech
How caffeine changed the world
The seductive powers, dark history, health benefits, and harmful side effects of the world’s most-used drug, are included in Michael Pollan’s new audiobook, “Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World.”
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Campus & Community
Steps for students returning to campus
Provost Alan M. Garber and Executive Director of Harvard University Health Services Giang Nguyen outline details of plan to bring students back on campus safely.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils anti-racism agenda
The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.
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Health
Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought
A new study has found that children infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment.
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Science & Tech
Putting a crown on OMNIVAX
A biomaterials-based infection vaccine strategy shows first promise in eliciting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and could be applied broadly to stave off infectious disease.
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Campus & Community
Pandemic does little to slow traveling grad
Harsh Sinha ’20 visited more than 80 countries during time at Harvard College. His goal is to be the youngest person to have visited 50 states in the U.S., as well as 100 of the U.N.-recognized nations.
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Campus & Community
Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zoom a-Zoom
With COVID-19 keeping children out of theater camp, Creative Drama — Space Explorers, a free, weeklong summer camp put on by the American Repertory Theater and Harvard Ed Portal brought theater camp to them.
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Health
More than biology influences COVID risk
The GenderSci Lab at Harvard finds that more men than women are dying of COVID-19.
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Nation & World
How to change an election
As many Americans, including presidential rivals Donald Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr., worry about potentially corrupt 2020 election results, government Professor Daniel Carpenter games how the rigging might play out.
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Arts & Culture
The long march for suffrage
Radcliffe dean and library director shed light on some of the historical issues framing the “Long 19th Amendment Project.”
