Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Coronavirus and the heart
Heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications.
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Health
Global race to a COVID-19 vaccine
Team at Harvard plans to launch a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in the fall.
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Nation & World
Reporting on the world between the wars
Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott looks at the international journalists who brought the world home between wars.
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Nation & World
Community contact tracing
An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.
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Nation & World
Obama: In trying times, truth first
During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, in the background
Harvard’s best angles, to display in the background of conference calls.
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Nation & World
Time to fix American education with race-for-space resolve
Q&A with Harvard’s Paul Reville about the impact of the coronavirus on education.
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Campus & Community
By phone and online, the care continues
A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.
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Nation & World
Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional institutions
Working in real time, Harvard researchers are surveying correctional facilities to find out how U.S. prisons and jails are being affected by the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
SEAS moves opening of Science and Engineering Complex to spring semester ’21
Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.
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Health
Relearning ways to grieve
With everything from hugs to funerals now forbidden or unrecognizable, a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health online forum focused on “How the Discomfort of Grief Can Help Us: Recognizing and Adapting to Loss During the COVID-19 Outbreak.”
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Science & Tech
Students come together with Congregate
With the move to online classes, a group of Harvard students quickly formed a team and collaborated over spring break to develop Congregate, a web platform that enables users to host events or gatherings that are broken into many dynamically generated conversation rooms.
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Health
Hope for managing hospital admissions of COVID-19 cases
A top emergency-preparedness official with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says recent modeling shows social distancing is working to flatten the curve.
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Health
Innovating to train medical pros on using mechanical ventilators
Harvard and EdX, the virtual learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Science & Tech
‘Faster protection with less material’
Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.
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Health
Injections to become pills, in vision of Harvard-launched startup
New formulations enable oral delivery of therapeutics traditionally delivered intravenously.
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Campus & Community
Blessings from afar
How Harvard is observing Easter and Passover in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
‘The world changed, so we changed with it’
While the majority of the Wyss Institute is working remotely, a small but dedicated team is still coming into the lab to help treat and cure COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
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Campus & Community
Turning Harvard virtual
A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.
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Science & Tech
Scientists map human protein interactions
Scientists produce a reference map of human protein interactions, releasing data helpful for understanding diseases including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Health
A flawed masterpiece
In a new paper published in Cell, Harvard researchers exploring the genetic features that help make the knee possible found that the regulatory switches involved in its development also play a role in a partially heritable disease.
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Health
How masks and buildings can be barriers to the coronavirus
According to Harvard’s Joe Allen, coronavirus is likely being transmitted in buildings through ventilation systems. But there are ways to minimize risks.
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Campus & Community
The way we live now
One Harvard student describes what life is like on a deserted campus while another shares his experience going home and the adjustments the followed.
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Science & Tech
Design School turns 3D printers into PPE producers
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) began production of personal protective equipment (PPE) on Sunday.
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Health
From a care of souls to the care of bodies
Kevin Cranston discusses the critical and continuing need for adequate testing and about how data helps inform policy and procedures during a pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and MIT donate $500,000 to Cambridge
Harvard University has donated $250,000 to support a temporary emergency shelter in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design’s dean diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Health
Epidemiologist says COVID-19 may be more infectious than thought
Efforts to protect nursing home patients should include moving residents from facilities and increased testing, said Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina.
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Campus & Community
‘I thought: This is going to be interesting’
Nearly two weeks after he announced that he and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow, had been exposed to the novel coronavirus, Harvard President Larry Bacow shared his experience with the pandemic illness.
