Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Health
Heart attack uptick attached to 2016 presidential election
Two days after the 2016 presidential election, hospitalization rates for heart attacks and strokes were 1.62 times higher than the same two days the week prior, based on information supplied by a large southern California health system.
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Nation & World
Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism
“The Enduring Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the North” examined the role of slavery in the North through the 19th century and the influence of Agassiz and scientific racism.
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Arts & Culture
A.R.T. opens up with virtual programming
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announces it 2020 fall season of virtual programming.
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Campus & Community
Going head to head
Brigid Kennedy ’21 knows she’s lucky to be rowing on the Charles River for this year’s virtual Head of the Charles Regatta, Oct. 9-17, and her gratitude shows.
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Campus & Community
Srikant Datar named dean of Business School
Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at Harvard Business School, will become the School’s next dean, President Larry Bacow announced.
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Nation & World
Battle for LGBTQ rights amid the pandemic
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.
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Work & Economy
Surveying a landscape of economic uncertainty in COVID era
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff assesses the state of the U.S. economy and what’s on the horizon.
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Nation & World
A day of reckoning
We ask members of the Harvard community: “Is this the end of Columbus Day and how can America best replace it?”
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Campus & Community
High-Risk, High-Reward grants for nine Harvard researchers
Harvard scientists receive prestigious grant funding through NIH program.
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Campus & Community
From one Nobel laureate to another
Via a tweet, Harvard professor and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak congratulated former student Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel in chemistry on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Reimagining rights
A report released by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights offers 80 recommendations for reimagining Americans’ rights and responsibilities.
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Health
Protection against reinfection
A new study shows that people who survive serious COVID-19 infections have long-lasting immune responses against the virus.
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Health
COVID-19 and cancer
Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.
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Health
International forum cites strong government response as key in battle against COVID
The international forum “Global Perspectives on COVID-19,” co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School, cited the importance of strong, coordinated government response as a key to stopping the novel coronavirus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Pulled to the polls
The Harvard Votes Challenge has recruited more than 150 affiliates to work the polls as part of its partnership with the Safe Elections Network and Power to the Polls. The Gazette spoke to a handful of students and staff about why they decided to get involved.
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Campus & Community
John Tate, 94
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Torrence Tate, Jr., Perkins Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Tate was a world leader in number theory.
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Campus & Community
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, 81
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Coelho was a scholar of Portuguese and…
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Science & Tech
Deep learning takes on synthetic biology
Computational algorithms enable identification and optimization of RNA-based tools for myriad applications.
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Nation & World
American voters don’t hate ambitious women, after all
Upending conventional wisdom, new political science research finds that voters aren’t automatically put off by ambitious women candidates.
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Science & Tech
A timeline on the evolution of reptiles
A new study by a team of Harvard-led researchers contradicts a widely held theory that major transitions in evolution always happened in big, quick (geologically speaking) bursts, triggered by major environmental shifts.
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Nation & World
Forcing the UN to do right by Haitian cholera victims
Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, talks about the complaint the clinic and two human rights organizations filed against the United Nations for its response to introducing cholera to Haiti.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Isaiah Andrews awarded a MacArthur
Harvard Professor Isaiah Andrews is honored with a MacArthur for his work in econometrics.
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Health
At-home COVID testing launches in Boston
The TestBoston study will facilitate at-home testing on 10,000 people for both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibodies against it to increase access to testing and surveillance.
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Science & Tech
Six-year deluge linked to Spanish flu, World War I deaths
A new study of ice-core data shows that an unusual, six-year period of cold temperatures and heavy rainfall coincided with European deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu.
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Science & Tech
Interplanetary storm chasing
Harvard researchers use a 3D model to figure out how a hexagon-shaped mega-storm on Saturn was formed.
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Nation & World
When COVID and the election collided
Hospitalization, a shift in campaign messaging, and carrying on: Harvard faculty members and others discuss what may be ahead as President Trump’s COVID-19 battle ripples across America.
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Arts & Culture
Students make the show go on
Students and faculty in the Theater, Dance & Media program think creatively about how to put on a show in the age of COVID.
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Arts & Culture
In painting others, Black artists discover a picture of self-care
Harvard’s Ed Portal uses art to kick off a conversation about self-care for people of color.
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Nation & World
Tracing misinformation
Research shows elites, mass media play important role in spreading misinformation on mail-in voter fraud.
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Campus & Community
When it comes to online learning, safety first
The Harvard Ed Portal and Harvard University IT partnered on a free Zoom event meant to address teachers’ and parents’ concerns about how much time in front of a computer is too much, how can people stay engaged while social distancing, and whether we should worry about children’s safety on the internet.
