Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Harvard to help track the virus
Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Leadership on the front line
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.
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Nation & World
The collective effort
Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.
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Health
Ways to redirect our response to COVID-19 anxieties
Third in series of Chan School forums offers tips for dealing with COVID-19 anxieties.
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Campus & Community
Mobile clinics finding their place in pandemic
Harvard Medical School’s Family Van co-hosted a webinar to discuss what the mobile clinics have to offer during the coronavirus pandemic — and it’s a lot.
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Health
Mask decontamination methods: Strengths, weaknesses, gaps
As health care workers resort to mask reuse, a coalition of professionals compares risks, benefits of major decontamination methods.
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Campus & Community
Notes from the new normal
What is normal in a quarantined world? Apparently, whatever you want it to be.
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Nation & World
In prisons, a looming coronavirus crisis
Experts from across the University are calling for state officials to limit the number of people in jails and prisons in an effort to stop the virus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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Campus & Community
University community rallies to deal with COVID-19 crisis
Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are working with hospitals, first responders, state and city leaders, and many more across Greater Boston to support the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nation & World
Waste not, want not
Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.
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Health
Organized to fight the pandemic
The newly formed Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness aims to address both the immediate and long-term implications of the coronavirus crisis. The effort, led by Harvard Medical School, will work to stem the tide of COVID-19 but, more importantly, to lay the groundwork for dealing with future pandemics.
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Health
From the lab to COVID front lines
Aldatu Biosciences, a company born in Harvard’s labs and nurtured in its entrepreneurial ecosystem, helps the region ramp up COVID-19 testing.
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Campus & Community
Harvard board elections moved to summer in response to virus disruptions
Harvard’s governing boards have announced the delay of the 2020 Overseer and HAA Elected Director elections until July to allow voters time to respond and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Health
New blood test can detect wide range of cancers
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy.
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Health
A multipronged attack against a shared enemy
As the pandemic intensifies, Harvard scientists work to find a treatment.
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Campus & Community
For professors who have taught at Extension School, Zoom is an old friend
The Division of Continuing Education, which offers nearly 900 online courses each year, is helping the College move to online learning.
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Science & Tech
Facing a pandemic, Broad does a quick pivot
Facing a pandemic, scientific and administrative teams across the Broad Institute raced to enable coronavirus testing in a matter of days.
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Campus & Community
College adopts grading policy changes for spring term
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard College will adopt an Emergency Satisfactory/Emergency Unsatisfactory (SEM/UEM) grading policy for the spring semester.
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Nation & World
Wither the handshake?
Long-held habits have disappeared overnight as social distancing has become the new normal in the age of the novel coronavirus. What about the handshake?
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Campus & Community
An option to serve in COVID-19 fight
Harvard Medical School is offering this year’s graduating students the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can be deployed into hospitals to help with COVID-19 patients.
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Health
‘If you remain mostly upright, you are doing it well enough’
Office of Work/Life Director Nancy Costikyan gives tips and resources for staying sane and productive while working from home.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to guarantee workers’ pay, benefits amid coronavirus disruptions
Harvard announces it will guarantee workers’ pay and benefits through May 28, despite disruptions from the coronavirus.
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Health
On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option
Social distancing could allow a level of infection that can be handled by the health care system, but would build enough immunity to strangle the epidemic.
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Campus & Community
1,980 accepted to the Class of 2024
Harvard College announced that 1,981 have been accepted to the Class of 2024 in regular-action decisions.
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Campus & Community
Early responses indicate shift to online classes going well overall
Harvard professors offer early responses to teaching online, with some finding hitches tempered by surprising benefits.
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Health
Online forum aims to teach how to deal with pandemic stress
Chan School online forum aims to teach how to deal with pandemic stress.
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Science & Tech
Capabilities of CRISPR gene editing expanded
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital have modified the gene editing system, making it possible to potentially target any location across the entire human genome.
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Health
Harvard Medical School students mobilize
To help in that effort, within days of the escalation of infections in Massachusetts, hundreds of Harvard Medical School students began mobilizing to provide voluntary support to clinicians.
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Nation & World
Economists cheered by relief package but see long, tough slog ahead
Economists Karen Dynan and Kenneth Rogoff discuss the $2 trillion relief package and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
