Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Love in the time of COVID
An expert in romantic relationships talks about the ways couples can keep relationships healthy in the time of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia
D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.
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Arts & Culture
Leaving a mark on campus
The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.
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Work & Economy
‘If it’s not over on the disease … it’s not over on the balance sheet’
Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.
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Campus & Community
Exploring from home
Harvard Ed Portal’s virtual field trips help students see the world.
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Health
Vaccines can protect against COVID-19 in nonhuman primates, study says
Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed vaccines — currently being tested in animal models — that are designed to train the body’s immune system to recognize the virus swiftly upon exposure and respond quickly to disable it.
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Campus & Community
‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’
Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.
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Health
A summer like no other
Summer message from a health expert: Go outside and play, but don’t forget about COVID.
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Campus & Community
Dear Harvard
Students launch virtual postcard project to keep the Harvard community connected.
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Campus & Community
In tune with a program of dual study
Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.
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Campus & Community
Rising above a biased system he’s now determined to change
Growing up in Mattapan, Kwame Adams refused to be defined by low expectations. Now the Ed School grad aims to help Boston students of color avoid the same biases he faced.
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Campus & Community
A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Work & Economy
Democratizing work for the people and the planet
An op-ed that was cosigned by more than 5,000 researchers from universities around the globe, issued an urgent plea: We need to transform the way we work.
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Nation & World
‘The lesson is to never forget’
Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors
Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away
Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Wishing there’d been just a little more time to savor senior year on campus
Neuroscience concentrator Hayoung Ahn describes how things are going in Queens, N.Y., now that she’s back home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
HAA honors three with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, will receive the 2020 Harvard Medal.
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Campus & Community
Coming full circuit
From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.
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Campus & Community
Doing the right thing
Jose Cerda III ’88, Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95, and Theresa Reno-Weber, M.P.P. ’08, offer the Class of 2020 advice about the value of public service.
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Health
The mother of invention
COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
A warning on homeschooling
Q&A with HLS professor and child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet, who calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.
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Campus & Community
Reason to smile
After he graduates from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Jeffrey Taylor will pursue a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery where he’ll one day reconstruct damaged jaws, fix life-altering facial deformities.
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Campus & Community
Reopening research operations
The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.
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Campus & Community
Scenes from the socially distant
In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.
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Campus & Community
Nine faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Nine Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
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Health
Sticking to the healthy diet?
A newly identified “metabolic signature” can evaluate an individual’s adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean diet and help predict future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Health
What pandemic dreams may come
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Positive disruption
Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.
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Campus & Community
Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
