Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Arts & Culture
Remembrance of cicada seasons past
Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .
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Health
Citing COVID threat, researchers urge policy changes to ease prison crowding
Researchers say policymakers should weigh decarceration for inmates at low risk of reoffending to combat COVID inside prisons.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Extension is good fit for CEO of Native American nonprofit
Chris James, president and CEO of The National Center for Native American Enterprise Development in Mesa, Arizona, shares his Extension School experience.
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Campus & Community
Who wants ice cream? At this point, pretty much everyone
Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.
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Health
New test detects COVID-19 variants in your spit
Researchers have now created a simple, inexpensive diagnostic test that allows users to test themselves for multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, using just a sample of their saliva.
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Science & Tech
Dan Barouch and the birth of the J&J COVID vaccine
Dan Barouch, Harvard Medical School professor and head of Beth Israel Deaconess’ Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for work that culminated in one of three vaccines against COVID-19 approved for use in the U.S.
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Health
COVID prevention tips as delta variant surges
Harvard Associate Professor of Epidemiology William Hanage provides tips on how to deal with the delta variant of COVID-19.
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Health
Diet, exercise, and sleep affect heart health, but why?
Researchers are looking more closely at the impact of stress on the body, taking it down to the cellular and molecular level.
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Nation & World
Learning the hard way
Harvard’s Allan M. Brandt, history of science scholar and “Cigarette Century” author, says opioid negotiators should heed lessons from tobacco settlement.
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Health
The present and future of COVID variants
Conversations with Harvard experts shed light on the rise of delta, an unwelcome twist in transmission, the power of vaccination, and more.
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Arts & Culture
How plants have influenced human societies
Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.
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Health
Give her some space
The Gazette spoke with Harvard psychologist Michael Hollander about the toll anxiety can take on performance and what must change to ensure athletes get the help they need.
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Campus & Community
New 24/7 mental-health hotline for Harvard students opens
Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.
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Nation & World
How far can Biden go?
Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston says President Biden is on solid legal ground to mandate that federal workers get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Health
Preventing childhood obesity in the first 1,000 days of life
A new study demonstrates how changing parents’ health behavior and how clinicians deliver care to mothers and infants decreases excess weight gain in infants.
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Health
Reaching people where they live and die
Robert Blendon examined the divide among Americans over vaccine mandates.
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Campus & Community
Veteran biotech executive to run new center aimed at boosting cell and gene therapies
Landmark Bio, a new center for advanced cell manufacturing, announced that former Orchard Therapeutics, Amgen, and Genzyme executive Ran Zheng will take over as chief executive. Landmark Bio is a partnership of Boston-area universities, hospitals, and private industry led by Harvard and MIT.
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Nation & World
Haiti assassination revives concerns over ‘private armies’
After authorities say Haiti’s president was assassinated by a hired hit squad, a former senior CIA career official talks about the world of private armies.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse in Latin America
Associate Professor Alisha Holland discusses the political impact of the pandemic in Latin America.
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Campus & Community
A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts
Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.
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Science & Tech
Living proof
A study by Harvard researchers demonstrates that jumping spiders can distinguish living from nonliving objects based on their movement.
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Science & Tech
Mark I, rebooted
After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Nation & World
Hey, I know that sprinter in the 200!
Harvard is sending a range of competitors, both current students and alumni, to the Olympic/Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
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Arts & Culture
Tuning up for a return to performing in person
After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.
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Science & Tech
What exactly is a ‘fire tornado’?
What is a fire tornado? Harvard’s Loretta Mickley sheds some light.
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Work & Economy
Why all the abuse of servers, flight staffs, sales clerks as COVID rules ease?
Ryan W. Buell discusses what’s behind the sudden spike in customer rage at service workers and what firms can do to support their employees.
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Campus & Community
Simple brilliance
In the summertime the days lengthen, the landscape brightens, calling to mind crisp sheets on a clothesline, billowy clouds, or a crisp culinary uniform.
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Health
Gut check
Changes in gut microbiome in longitudinal study of infants precede onset of celiac disease.
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Campus & Community
First-time teachers thrown into the COVID deep end
During the pandemic, the Harvard Teacher Fellows program quickly shifted its training from in-person to online teaching.
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Campus & Community
Slavery isn’t dead, Clint Smith says. It isn’t even past.
Shining a light on the complex history of slavery and how we understand its lasting impacts is at the heart of Clint Smith’s latest work.
