Featured series 
Year: 2020
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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.
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Nation & World
Waves of progress
A. R. Siders is a social scientist and a lawyer, advocating for audacious climate adaptation that’s fair for everyone.
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Nation & World
Risks and Rewards
Kenneth Tucceri has followed his passions and travelled the globe, all in pursuit of inspiring others and being a positive force in the world.
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Nation & World
Police reform in the spotlight
A panel of experts explores the history of policing in the U.S., and meaningful reform.
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Nation & World
Will coronavirus change college admissions?
Richard Weissbourd of the Graduate School of Education discusses what college admissions deans expect from applicants during the pandemic, and opportunities to reform the process.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.
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Nation & World
China’s tightening leash on Hong Kong
Harvard scholar discusses what China’s sweeping new security law will mean for the future of democratic rule in the semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong.
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Nation & World
Lessons from James Baldwin on betrayal and hope
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.
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Nation & World
The path to zero
Harvard Global Health Institute, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and more join to launch new COVID Risk Level map for policy makers and the public.
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Health
Sniffing out smell
Researchers describe for the first time how relationships between different odors are encoded in the olfactory cortex, the region of brain responsible for processing smell.
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Science & Tech
When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
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Nation & World
Hunger on the rise amid pandemic
Experts on food insecurity and diet gathered at an online forum on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hunger in America, and ways to make the post-pandemic food landscape better than that before COVID struck.
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Nation & World
Making the case for reproductive rights
Harvard Law Today spoke with Julie Rikelman, ’93, J.D. ’97, about her Supreme Court win and the case’s implications for reproductive rights.
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Science & Tech
East Africa facing massive swarms of locusts
Researcher looks to sequence the pest’s genome as part of push to find a safer alternative to dangerous pesticides
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Campus & Community
The changing ecosystem of philanthropy
Provost Alan Garber and Brian Lee, vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development, discuss the critical role of philanthropic support at Harvard and the principles behind Harvard’s gift policy.
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Nation & World
‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’
A 4th of July community reading to explore the resonance of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, reflect on the past, and what comes next.
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Campus & Community
Serving up a new social order
The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”
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Science & Tech
Is air conditioning helping spread COVID in the South?
Harvard researchers, drawing on insights from tuberculosis research, say air conditioners may be a factor in COVID-19’s spread down South, and relatively inexpensive germicidal ultraviolet lights a weapon.
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Science & Tech
An expedition at the Arboretum
The Arnold Arboretum’s new Expeditions Mobile App gives visitors an interactive experience with audio, text, and imagery — all in the palms of their hands.
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Science & Tech
Nanofiber protects against extreme temperatures and projectiles
Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center and West Point, have developed a lightweight, multifunctional nanofiber material that can protect wearers from both extreme temperatures and ballistic threats.
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Health
Pandemic threatens to veer out of control in U.S., public health experts say
Harvard public health experts said the U.S. coronavirus epidemic is getting “quite out of hand” and that lower death rates and younger populations testing positive should give no comfort.
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Campus & Community
At the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club, ingenuity first
Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.
