Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
Fatal encounters with police
The metaLAB(at)Harvard project gathers the names and stories of 28,000 people who died during police encounters, highlighting racial disparities.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2024 yield drops marginally
With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.
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Campus & Community
In search of future Overseers
A former Overseer and the executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association discuss the work of the HAA nominating committees.
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Health
Healthy buildings expert outlines recommendations for school reopenings
As school officials worry about whether they can safely reopen their districts in the fall, Joseph Allen, a Harvard healthy buildings expert has an answer: yes.
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Health
Primary care sector projected to lose $15 billion
As a result of COVID-19 shutdowns, a $15 billion loss in the primary care sector is expected to threaten practice viability, reducing further an already insufficient number of primary care providers in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Preserving the future
Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Walsh details thinking behind redeployment of police funds
Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.
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Campus & Community
Making connections, building community
John West, M.B.A. ’95, says teamwork, bridging differences, and consensus-building have shaped his approach to life — and will remain guiding principles when he begins his term as president of…
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Campus & Community
‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’
As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.
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Campus & Community
From hands-on to virtual
A group of local high school students worked on original astrophysics research projects through the Harvard-MIT Science Research Mentoring Program.
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers
Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.
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Science & Tech
Lockdown? What lockdown?
Cellphone mobility data shows that most Americans have put the coronavirus lockdown in the rearview mirror and are moving about at nearly the same rate as they were before the pandemic began, according to a Harvard epidemiologist who studies such data.
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Campus & Community
Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced
This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.
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Science & Tech
Microbes might manage your cholesterol
Researchers discover mysterious bacteria that break it down in the gut.
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Science & Tech
Finding COVID clues in movement
Tracking mobility of individuals offers hints of whether a problem is rising or falling.
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Work & Economy
How COVID turned a spotlight on weak worker rights
An interview with Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs and HLS Lecturer Sharon Block about the legal workplace issues in the time of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Three new professors named in math
Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department
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Nation & World
Examining COVID’s impact on Asians and Pacific Islanders
Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.
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Health
A new test method
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists.
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Campus & Community
Art for justice’s sake
Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.
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Campus & Community
A symphony of seasons
Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the four seasons at Harvard, paying tribute to Vivaldi.
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Campus & Community
Sherri Ann Charleston named chief diversity and inclusion officer
Sherri Ann Charleston, a diversity expert and a lawyer and historian trained in race and constitutional issues, will become Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer on Aug. 1.
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Nation & World
House majority whip shares the value of communication
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress, brought a unique perspective to Harvard for Juneteenth.
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Nation & World
Rewriting history — to include all of it this time
“A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know” focused on the race issues dividing the United States — and the possibility that open discussion could move us forward.
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Nation & World
Must we allow symbols of racism on public land?
Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed explores the controversy surrounding the removal of Confederate statues.
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Health
The risks of ‘not trying enough’ against COVID-19
Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said we’re in greater danger of doing too little to fight COVID-19 than too much.
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Nation & World
Supreme Court decision shielding DACA draws relief, celebration
Harvard’s president, recipients, and professors hope the Supreme Court’s narrow rejection of Donald Trump’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will lead to more comprehensive immigration reform.
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Work & Economy
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the financial fallout
Experts look at the long-term financial fallout from a 1921 riot that left an affluent Black community, known as Black Wall Street, destroyed by a white mob numbering in the thousands.
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Nation & World
Juneteenth in a time of reckoning
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery across the nation, when the Union Army took official control of Texas on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Campus & Community
Teaching to remain online for 2020-21
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean announces three potential scenarios for fall in an interim report to the community Monday that also confirmed online teaching will continue for the upcoming academic year.
