Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Campus & Community
School of Dental Medicine expands patient care, services
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced today that it will reopen the former Harvard University Health Services dental clinic with expanded services in February 2021.
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Campus & Community
4 win Marshall, International Rhodes scholarships
Three Harvard College students have won Marshall Scholarships, and an alumnus has won an International Rhodes.
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Arts & Culture
Brighter days for arts forecast in Biden administration
Though it is too early to tell exactly how the nation’s cultural landscape will fare under a Biden and Harris administration, a number of indicators suggest creative communities could face brighter times ahead with White House support.
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Nation & World
Rochelle Walensky to run CDC
Rochelle Walensky, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, was named the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by President-elect Biden.
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Science & Tech
‘Climate Conversations’ series aims to build community, spur action
‘Climate Conversations’ series engages researchers, leaders, practitioners, and organizers to seek paths to collaboration, solutions.
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Campus & Community
Baby, it’s cold outside
The Harvard Ed Portal partners with Action for Boston Community Development to collect winter coats for the community.
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Nation & World
Why Maradona matters
Professor Mariano Siskind talks about Diego Armando Maradona, the soccer star who died on Nov. 25 of heart failure at age 60, and what he represented for fans of the world’s most popular sport.
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Campus & Community
Moving into Science and Engineering Complex after pandemic pause
After months of pandemic-related delay, labs and offices have begun to move from the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Cambridge campus into the newly completed Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Science & Tech
Imagine a world in which AI is in your home, at work, everywhere
Harvard’s AI+Art project aims to get people thinking about how artificial intelligence may impact our lives in the future.
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Campus & Community
Now in session
Incoming lawmakers will be briefed on several national challenges and engage in conversation with Harvard’s faculty and other policy experts during four meetings in December.
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Campus & Community
Life along the Charles from sunrise to sunset
The Charles River teems with life from sunrise to sunset, as Gazette photographers witnessed.
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Health
Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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Health
Collective action for collective healing
Thomas Hübl, founder of the Academy of Inner Science, will offer a three-part workshop to Harvard faculty and staff to help them cope with the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nation & World
Principled yet just, pragmatic yet idealistic — and nice
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, recipient of the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, talks about leadership challenges and how she’s dealt with crises from the outside, like the coronavirus pandemic, and from the inside, like self-doubt and sexism in politics.
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Campus & Community
Bowling for values
Harvard Undergraduate Ethics Bowl, a new student club devoted to analyzing and debating ethical issues, involves a back-and-forth between teams and with their judges.
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Health
Will there be a serious post-Thanksgiving COVID surge?
Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.
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Science & Tech
New technology to investigate autism spectrum disorder
Scientists applied the “Perturb-Seq” method to study dozens of genes that are associated with autism spectrum disorder, identifying how specific cell types in the developing mouse brain are impacted by mutations.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Louis Cavell, 91
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 1, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Louis Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cavell wrote philosophy that was both scholarly and accessible…
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Campus & Community
Gordon Randolph Willey, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 1, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Gordon Randolph Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Willey made enormous contributions to the archaeology of North, Central and…
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Health
Seeing clearly again
Harvard Medical School scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice.
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Science & Tech
Zooming to the ocean floor
OEB 119 students are patched in via livestream and a satellite call to a team of researchers leading an exploration on the seafloor.
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Campus & Community
College expands undergraduate cohorts invited to campus for spring
After a successful fall, Harvard College administration had decided that this spring seniors and juniors, students from far time zones, and those who must be on campus to progress academically will be invited back to campus.
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Arts & Culture
A family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past
Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”
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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.
