Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Feeling election stress? Stop hitting ‘refresh’
Harvard psychologists offer tips to survive political stress and strain
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Nation & World
An electorate that wanted to be heard
Kennedy School panelists gathered online for a conversation on the issues and consequences of the presidential election, which they lauded as orderly and successful.
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Campus & Community
Martin Luther Kilson, Jr., 88
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 3, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Martin Luther Kilson, Jr., Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Kilson was a pioneering scholar of African and African American politics.
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Campus & Community
Richard Earl Caves, 88
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 3, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Earl Caves, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Caves was a foundational figure in the study of both international trade and industrial organization
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Campus & Community
Voting for the first time and in a historic contest. But no pressure
Harvard students discuss their hopes and fears for the nation on Election Day.
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Health
Vaccine close, but it likely won’t be a silver bullet
Medical experts say a vaccine will be a key development in the fight against the coronavirus, but warned against thinking its deployment will mean the fight is over.
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Nation & World
Recalling another strange, historic election
Harvard historians and scholars look at the 1872 presidential election that saw feminist Victoria Woodhull and abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the same ticket.
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Campus & Community
Why voting matters
On Oct. 29 a group of powerhouse women gathered to discuss the importance of civic engagement, local participation, and why voting matters.
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Campus & Community
Work that is vital, workers who are essential
The Gazette interviewed nine Harvard workers who have been laboring on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic, holding the place together and keeping everybody safe.
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Nation & World
Why isn’t the right more afraid of COVID-19?
Don’t they know how contagious this virus is? Analysts discuss why some people ignore or reject the medical experts and science of COVID.
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Campus & Community
History in a snap … or two
When William Rittase photographed Harvard in 1932, many of its iconic buildings were new. We recreated some of those images this fall to see what’s changed.
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Arts & Culture
Building a more just society
“The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.
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Nation & World
Thinking through unforeseeable election fallout
An online gathering of university officials took place last week to exchange ideas on how to prepare for Election Day.
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Health
Nipping COVID in the bud
A new trial at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is aiming to disrupt COVID-19’s attack early in its course by treating patients immediately after symptoms appear with a widely used antiviral drug that, if it works, could be rapidly repurposed to fight the coronavirus.
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Science & Tech
Touch and taste? It’s all in the suckers
Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses.
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Nation & World
How might the election change the nation’s place on world stage?
Analysts assess how a Biden presidency could reshape U.S. relations, impact the nation’s intelligence community, and prompt a nuclear recalibration by North Korea, Iran, and Russia.
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Health
COVID’s triple whammy for Black students
College students of color not only face a disproportionate risk of contracting COVID-19, they are particularly vulnerable to its psychological damage — especially when the longtime struggle against inequality and the current financial crisis are factored in, said speakers at a virtual Harvard forum.
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Campus & Community
In the name of justice
In the battle against systemic racism, Harvard alumni chart different courses for change.
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Nation & World
Lessons for leadership in a riven nation
Former governor Deval Patrick and scholars from various fields wrestle with ways to launch change.
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Nation & World
A fraught season for health care
With Election Day approaching and the coronavirus pandemic surging, Benjamin Sommers discusses how shifting political winds might affect health care.
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Health
Calculating possible fallout of Trump’s dismissal of face masks
Looking at the public health effects, and perhaps mortality rate, from President Trump’s running dismissal of wearing face masks to minimize the spread of coronavirus.
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Science & Tech
LabXchange meets and beats challenges of remote learning
LabXchange, a free digital-learning platform for science education, allows students, educators, scientists, and researchers to collaborate globally in an online community.
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Work & Economy
Great promise but potential for peril
Harvard experts examine the promise and potential pitfalls as AI takes a bigger decision-making role in more industries.
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Campus & Community
Taking inclusion to the HILT
Harvard President Larry Bacow discusses inclusivity at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching seminar.
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Campus & Community
A science club for girls
With Science Club for Girls, Harvard students and alumnae inspire young female scientists.
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Health
An unhealthy influencer
Risk factors for heart health, such as smoking, unhealthy diets and minimal physical activity, may seem personal, but for people who are married or in a domestic partnership, the behavior patterns of one person may be strongly linked to the patterns of the other.
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Nation & World
What to keep
Professors Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University and Mame-Fatou Niang of Carnegie Mellon University discussed movements to remove or rebrand public memorials commemorating historical figures associated with slavery and colonialism during “Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe,” presented by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Campus & Community
Harvard announces Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming
Harvard President Larry Bacow has launched the Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming to help guide consideration of questions about renaming campus buildings, spaces, programs, and professorships in view of their association with historical figures whose advocacy or support of activities would today be found abhorrent by members of the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
Autumnal exposures: Colorful moments in passing
From sunrise to sunset, Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln captured the beauty of autumn as it swept across the University’s campus surrounding community.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design revises master’s program
The Graduate School of Design has announced a revised master’s degree program that replaces eight concentration areas with four “domains,” all designed to address the interaction of design with landscape, ecology, infrastructure, and other environmental concerns.
