Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
Restricting civil liberties amid COVID-19 pandemic
Harvard Law School faculty Charles Fried and Nancy Gertner discuss new restrictions on individual freedoms during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
From envelopes to emails
For the first time, the annual Harvard Medical School Match Day celebration went virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shifted Quad classes online and caused clinical clerkships to be suspended until March 31.
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Science & Tech
Learning from recovery
Using the tool VirScan, researchers are able to detect antibodies in people’s blood that indicate active and past infections by viruses and bacteria. The goal is to learn how the virus affects the immune system.
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Health
Labs donate protective equipment to health care workers
As University facilities close, faculty and staff gather gear to pass along amid a nationwide shortage.
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Campus & Community
Suzannah Clark named director of Mahindra Humanities Center
Suzannah Clark, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, effective July 1.
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Nation & World
Will inequality worsen the toll of the pandemic in the U.S.?
America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.
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Campus & Community
How the Socratic method translates online
Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen shares her experience using Zoom to teach her class of 115 students in “Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment.“
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Health
Harvard coronavirus survey: How’re we doing? Not bad so far
An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Bringing (virtual) normalcy to the community
A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.
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Campus & Community
A recession playbook
Thomas Hollister details the planning the University had already done for the eventuality of a downturn and what the future may bring amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Health
Could a new test identify immunity?
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch outlined several scenarios — most of them bad — for getting America back to work
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Campus & Community
At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Harvard postpones Commencement
Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremony will be indefinitely postponed, a move aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Getting ready for the inevitable
Harvard Medical School faculty members and their colleagues at Partners In Health are collaborating with local communities and national governments to help prepare some of the world’s most vulnerable people for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Scaled-down labs felt ‘this special responsibility’
Harvard scientists put their research on hold for safety, and see chance to help hospitals with precious gear.
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Campus & Community
Nohria to remain Business School dean until December
As the University responds to the coronavirus pandemic, including shifting to virtual learning for the rest of the academic year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria will stay on the job until the end of the year, Harvard President Larry Bacow today announced.
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Campus & Community
It was a week like no other
Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln returned to campus this past weekend to capture the thoughts and images of students as they readied themselves to return home.
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Campus & Community
Lizabeth Cohen wins Bancroft Prize
Lizabeth Cohen has won the 2020 Bancroft Prize in American History.
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Nation & World
‘Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns?’
E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.
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Science & Tech
‘There will be cascading failures that get fixed on the fly’
The massive shift from the office to remote work will test the internet in ways it hasn’t been tested before, a Harvard expert on the technology industry said, offering a real-time experiment that will likely see failures, but from which unexpected solutions will also emerge.
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Health
App predicts hospital capacity
Harvard’s Global Health Institute puts its research expertise into motion, helping hospitals assess capacity and quality of care so they can prepare for COVID-19 patients appropriately.
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Campus & Community
An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Health
Talking about the emotional toll of the pandemic
The Harvard Chan School of Public Health will launch a series of weekly interactive forums to discuss issues and options.
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Work & Economy
Why odds of a coronavirus recession have risen
An interview with economist Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School, about the economic impact of the coronavirus on both the world and the U.S. economy.
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Campus & Community
Homeward bound
To protect the health of the Harvard Medical School community, first-year Medical and Dental School students, as well as second- and third-year dental students, were asked to vacate their rooms in Vanderbilt Hall. Research laboratories will also be shuttered by 5 p.m. on March 18.
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Work & Economy
Coronavirus economic fallout won’t be ‘done with by June’
A Harvard Business School expert on Asian industry said restarting the global economy in COVID-19’s wake won’t be easy, and the task won’t begin until the worst effects are past, perhaps months from now.
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Campus & Community
House staff and volunteers roll up sleeves
It’s all hands on deck to help students arrange travel, ship and store their stuff, and depart campus.
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Health
COVID test debacle: ‘We hoped it would go away before it reached us’
Massachusetts may need 1.4 million COVID-19 tests and ramp up to tens of thousands given a day, Harvard experts said.
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Campus & Community
What new U.S. travel rules mean for foreign students, scholars
Mark Elliott, vice provost for international affairs, and Martha Gladue, director of the Harvard International Office, discuss what the new U.S. travel rules mean for foreign students, scholars, and those studying abroad.
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Campus & Community
The show must stop
The American Repertory Theater has canceled or postponed a series of upcoming events in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
