Featured series 
Month: September 2021
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Arts & Culture
Earth’s most excellent mixtape
Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.
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Campus & Community
A new way for graduates to connect and find inspiration
Harvard Alumni Association executive director talks about rethinking alumni weekend and embracing an inclusive future.
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Science & Tech
How a hormone affects society
The hormone testosterone provides a backdrop for male aggression and violence, both in nature and in society, argues a Harvard human evolutionary biologist.
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Campus & Community
New vision for planning and design
As Harvard’s chief of university planning and design, Purnima Kapur will work to strengthen campus connections.
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Nation & World
2020 census racial data lacks nuance, sociology professor says
Harvard associate professor of sociology Ellis Monk says wording of questions, presentation, various changes probably affected census count.
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Nation & World
Between Army and Medical School, a stop in hell
Former Army captain Gregory Galeazzi discusses his time in Afghanistan, his long recovery from injury, becoming a physician, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
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Campus & Community
How Harvard’s multilayer strategy helps keep COVID rates low
Health Services chief points to air filtration systems, high vaccination rates, masking and testing protocols, and other measures.
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Arts & Culture
Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due
New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.
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Work & Economy
Answer to U.S. labor shortage? ‘Hidden’ workforce
Businesses could address labor shortages by tapping into 27 million workers who are “hidden” from corporate hiring processes.
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Campus & Community
A homecoming
Award-winning fiction writer Namwali Serpell returns to Harvard as professor of English.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing ancient pottery to life
Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.
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Campus & Community
United in service
The second annual Global Day of Service on Aug. 30 brought together nearly 1,400 Harvard students and alumni who worked with 71 service opportunities.
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Work & Economy
Visionary, criminal, or both?
Eugene Soltes, a Harvard Business School expert on white-collar criminals, evaluates the case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
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Campus & Community
New learning curve
After 18 months away, Harvard students returned cautiously and excitedly to physical classrooms across campus.
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Arts & Culture
Fresh insight in familiar frames
Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.
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Campus & Community
Making a splash
Harvard student swimmer David Abrahams wins silver in his first Paralympics in Tokyo.
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Arts & Culture
Spotted at Radcliffe: A brain exploding into rainbows
While spending a year at Radcliffe working on her latest book, Lauren Groff switched gears after attending a talk by a fellowship classmate — and started a project focused on a medieval nun.
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Arts & Culture
A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death
Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.
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Health
Diet may affect risk and severity of COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital study links healthy plant-based foods with lower risks of getting of COVID-19 and of having severe disease after infection.
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Nation & World
The day of
Former Harvard students recall the confusion and fear of 9/11, the desire to do something, and the sense that everything would be different now.
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Nation & World
Born to take on Islamophobia
Harvard Muslim Americans discuss the impact of Sept. 11 on their lives and what it means to be Muslim American 20 years after 9/11.
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Nation & World
‘I never saw a survivor’
On the morning of 9/11, David Battat, a Harvard grad and longtime volunteer firefighter, got a call from his College roommate telling him that a plane had crashed into a tower at the World Trade Center and urging him to stay away. Battat assured his friend he would remain where he was, hung up the…
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Nation & World
New York minute
When the planes hit the twin towers, Jill Radsken was a reporter covering New York Fashion Week in midtown Manhattan. Within minutes she was a news reporter capturing a world-changing terrorist attack.
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Nation & World
Choosing a concentration
A different kind of education awaited Joe Linhart ’03 in Iraq.
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Nation & World
Where were you when it happened?
Faculty and staff from across the University recall where they were on September 11, 2001, and how they think about the attacks 20 years later.
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Campus & Community
Head in the stars, hands in the dirt
The garden at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian provides nutrition and a visual feast that is open to all.
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Campus & Community
Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee
Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names vice provost for climate and sustainability
James H. Stock, a Harvard professor and economist known for his expertise on energy and environmental policy, has been named the University’s inaugural vice provost for climate and sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Making Shakespeare feel relevant
Jeffrey Wilson, who teaches Shakespeare to first-year students, says that skeptical students are often the most successful ones.
