Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
Pollster looks at how pandemic, loss of RBG may affect election
Polling methodology expert Chase Harrison talks about why the 2020 election polls can explain how COVID-19 may reshape the vote, and offers some useful insights into the presidential race.
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Nation & World
Sea change
Harvard Business School alum Jonathan Stone has spent over 30 years working to protect Narragansett Bay, one of Rhode Island’s most important natural resources.
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Health
Let there be light
MGH-led study shows light therapy is safe, modulates brain repair, and may benefit patients with moderate traumatic brain injury.
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Campus & Community
An uncertain financial road ahead
The Gazette spoke with Harvard Vice President for Finances Thomas J. Hollister about FY20 and a forecast for FY21. He also outlined the three overriding financial principles the University will maintain during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Winds of change
Holmes academic society renamed in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton.
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Arts & Culture
Befriending ‘Clarissa’ during lockdown
With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.
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Work & Economy
Exploring Coke’s role in obesity strategy in China, elsewhere
Harvard researcher says Coke worked through a D.C. nonprofit to shape obesity science and policy solutions in China.
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Arts & Culture
A divine cosmos
Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien ’22 used her fellowship at Houghton Library to focus on Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” creating a fully image-based research product.
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Nation & World
A portrait of JFK, in full
Fredrik Logevall’s biography on John F. Kennedy aims to chronicle a complex life amid a pivotal time for a nation.
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Campus & Community
In and out of school: Two siblings’ approach to growth as undergrads
Two Harvard College siblings share a graduation year and a determination for pursuing their passions.
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Arts & Culture
Jameela Jamil is in a good place
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.
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Health
Battle against malaria taken to next level
A team of researchers has developed a CRISPR-based malaria test that is fast, inexpensive and can be conducted in low-resource settings.
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Nation & World
The life and legacy of RBG
As the country mourns the death of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at 87, the Gazette asked members of the Harvard community to reflect on her legacy.
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Nation & World
Getting out the vote
Tova Wang spoke with the Gazette about how young Americans can get political leaders to listen to them and persuade cynical friends or family members that every ballot matters.
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Science & Tech
An emergency response team for data?
Data science provides a foundation for an important front in the battle against COVID-19. The Harvard Data Science Review, a journal of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, is helping keep data scientists connected and up to date on the latest findings.
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Health
What crowdsourced big data may be able to tell us about COVID
How We Feel app lays groundwork to use big data to understand and predict coronavirus infection.
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Science & Tech
Your shoes were made for walking. And that may be the problem
Toe springs in shoes make walking easier but may come at a cost.
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Health
Coffee connection gets stronger
Data from a large observational study suggests coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of metastatic colorectal cancer progression and death.
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Nation & World
Appeals court hears arguments in admissions case
A three-judge panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a ruling last fall that found Harvard’s admissions policies do not discriminate on the basis of race.
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Health
A public-relations campaign to build trust in COVID vaccine?
A public campaign to build trust may be needed if a successful vaccine candidate is to be taken by enough Americans to interrupt the COVID pandemic, a Harvard public health expert said.
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Science & Tech
How the West became WEIRD
In his new book Joe Henrich looks at how the West became psychologically peculiar and prosperous.
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Nation & World
Science and citizenship
Over the course of 10 weeks this summer, Harvard Medical School graduate students spent their time outside of the lab working at the Massachusetts State House as fellows in the Scientific Citizenship Initiative.
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Nation & World
In this election, ‘costly signal deployment’
As the 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric heats up, Harvard experimental psychologist Joshua D. Greene, who studies the science behind tribal instincts and moral judgments, looks at the strategy behind President Trump’s increasingly provocative, extreme language.
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Campus & Community
Inspired to action, eager to serve
The global Harvard community participated in the University’s first Global Day of Service.
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Science & Tech
On the clock
Researchers have built two machine learning models that gauge biological age and predict remaining lifespan in mice.
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Science & Tech
Viewing flattened fossils in a new light
Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.
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Nation & World
Report finds fathers feel closer to children during pandemic
Recent Harvard research has uncovered one significant — if perhaps fleeting — silver lining for fathers and children during the coronavirus pandemic. Fathers across the U.S., many of whom now work at home due to coronavirus lockdowns, are feeling closer to their children.
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Science & Tech
A cool first for Harvard
Harvard researchers become the first to cool a polyatomic molecule using light.
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Work & Economy
Pandemic’s path of destruction widens
According to a Harvard study, a majority of households with children in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston are facing serious financial problems.
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Science & Tech
Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort
A look at COVID-19 contact tracing efforts at Harvard.
