Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Medical immersion for students shifts online in pandemic
Students from as far away as Africa and Asia are benefiting from a COVID-prompted shift online of an HMS program that gives high schoolers a taste of life in the exam room.
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Science & Tech
7 million face shields and counting
The Wyss Institute made improvements to its face shields based on recommendations from area hospitals. Joining forces with a Mansfield, Mass.-based manufacturer, the institute’s face shields are now being produced at a rate of 400,000 a day.
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Campus & Community
Hollister explains revised guidance on endowment
Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, explains the Harvard Corporation’s revised endowment guidance for the 2021 fiscal year.
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Health
Soothing advice for mad America
The anger you’re seeing in the nation and your neighborhood — call it pandemic rage — is not in your imagination, according to a McLean hospital psychologist, who explains where it comes from and how to fight it.
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Campus & Community
Taking a shot on goal
Maryna Macdonald is a defender with the women’s ice hockey team and a member of British Columbia’s Ditidaht First Nation.
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Campus & Community
A new take on Title IX
Harvard has enacted two interim policies in response to the Department of Education’s recent changes to Title IX regulations against sex discrimination.
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Campus & Community
A SPARK of an idea
110 incoming first-year students participated in SPARK, a public-service summer program based in their hometowns. The Gazette spoke with nine of them.
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Campus & Community
Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Campus & Community
Nationwide search launched for University chief of police
Harvard has launched a nationwide search to hire the University’s next chief of police.
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Arts & Culture
His hobby? Making award-winning documentaries
Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”
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Campus & Community
TAPping into an employee perk
The Tuition Assistance Program lets eligible Harvard employees advance their education for as little as $40 a class.
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Health
After the game is over
Black, other athletes of color report more pain, physical impairment, mood disorders and cognitive problems than white peers.
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Science & Tech
Quieting the storm
Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice.
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Nation & World
Raising Voices
Benny Becker is leading media workshops in Appalachia to help turn the volume up on often-overlooked people and stories.
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Nation & World
Bright and early
Swati Adarkar is working to improve the educational opportunities for all children in Oregon through advocacy and action.
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Health
Root of the problem
Sheila Riggs is developing and implementing innovative dental health care solutions through research and hands-on community engagement.
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Nation & World
Here to learn
Shirley Vargas takes a collaborative approach to bettering K-12 education across Nebraska.
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Campus & Community
Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97
Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.
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Science & Tech
Linking sight and movement
Harvard neuroscientists look at how movement influences vision and perception.
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Nation & World
Challenge of archiving the #MeToo movement
The Schlesinger Library’s #MeToo archive, which opened to researchers on July 1, captures the tweets, websites, and online articles that powered the movement.
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Health
Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says
Shifting the U.S.’s COVID-19 testing strategy to emphasize inexpensive, daily tests would break national transmission chains within weeks, an infectious disease testing expert said.
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Campus & Community
Reinventing courses that are harder to teach remotely
How Harvard faculty are inventing ways to make “hard-to-teach” courses work online.
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Campus & Community
Testing for COVID, ensuring safety
Harvard is testing those who return regularly to campus for COVID-19 at two locations, including Harvard Stadium in Allston. Here are photos of how it’s working.
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Science & Tech
A new way to target resistant cancer
Harvard University researchers have identified a unique characteristic of the resistant cancer cells, which could lead to an inhibitor can be repurposed and combined with chemotherapy to improve patient outcomes.
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Nation & World
The gathering storm
Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.
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Work & Economy
The pause that brings peace and productivity
In doing research for his new book “Step Back,” Joseph Badaracco studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.
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Health
Five simple steps would tame COVID-19
Anthony Fauci, one of the government’s top authorities on the coronavirus pandemic, said that simple measures including wearing masks, avoiding bars, and spending time outdoors can tame the pandemic, but only if widely adopted.
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Nation & World
Home service
Angie’s List is supporting local organizations in its Indianapolis neighborhood, including homeless shelters, youth programs, and food assistance.
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Health
Promising progress on TB
A new drug regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis shows early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort including many with serious comorbidities
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Science & Tech
Emily Balskus wins $1M Waterman Award
Emily Balskus has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious prize for scientists under 40 in the United States.
