Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Arts & Culture
Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.
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Science & Tech
New wrinkle in tale of wolf-to-dog evolution
Study on the classic Russian farm-fox experiment raises questions about leading theories on the brains of domesticated animals.
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Campus & Community
Her daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack
In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.
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Nation & World
Best predictor of arrest rates? The ‘birth lottery of history’
Study: Social context of coming-of-age date matters more than socioeconomics.
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Campus & Community
RISE sets its sights on helping some of Cambridge’s neediest
Harvard and local philanthropic partners are helping fund the city of Cambridge’s new guaranteed-income pilot initiative to support community in need.
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Nation & World
‘We are going to soldier on’
After a lifetime of struggle against racism and years pushing for the Juneteenth holiday, Opal Lee’s wishes came true this week.
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Nation & World
‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts
In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.
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Campus & Community
Understanding the mayor’s office from the inside
Natalie Swartz has spent the past tumultuous year serving as the fifth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office.
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Nation & World
A diet that’s healthy for people, and the planet
At a virtual event, global experts examined obesity and malnutrition in the context of global warming, zoonotic disease, and other agriculture-related threats.
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Science & Tech
Electrodes that flow to fit the body
Scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created flexible, metal-free electrode arrays that conform to the body’s shapes.
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Nation & World
A reason to celebrate ‘On Juneteenth’
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the rising importance of “Juneteenth” as symbol and holiday.
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Nation & World
Supreme Court defers decision on reviewing admissions case
The Supreme Court has asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on a lawsuit involving Harvard’s admissions policies. The request postpones the court’s decision on whether to take a case that could have dramatic effects on diversity on college and university campuses across the country.
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Nation & World
Did Bill Barr ‘corrupt’ the Justice Department?
CNN legal analyst and HLS alum Elie Honig discusses how former Attorney General William Barr weaponized the Department of Justice to serve President Donald Trump, and harmed the institution in the process.
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Arts & Culture
With digital archive, a time and a new way to understand colonial history
Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.
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Campus & Community
Paving the way
The inaugural group of Harvard’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging fellows come from disciplines as diverse as the study of religion to Romance languages, English, and music.
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Nation & World
Learning from COVID’s ‘Chernobyl moment’
Members of an independent panel charged with coming up with ways to prevent the next pandemic urged international action.
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Nation & World
Can knowing someone of a different race early in life make you more liberal?
A new study finds links between white men having Black neighbors in their youth and later party affiliation.
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Campus & Community
The future of teaching and learning
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Backing high-risk, high-reward
Seven Harvard professors have been awarded funds from the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.
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Campus & Community
Glynn to retire as CEO of Harvard Allston Land Co.
Glynn was instrumental in advancing Harvard’s vision for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston
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Campus & Community
The serendipity of solitude
A breath of fresh air, meditation, or a yoga stretch during a “sun salutation” are simple ways to center yourself during challenging times.
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Health
New center seeks to understand any ‘magic’ in mushrooms
Massachusetts General Hospital’s new Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics aims to better understand psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes.
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Health
One shot at protection
The COVID-19 vaccine that requires just one shot has been shown to generate a robust immune responses against variants.
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Nation & World
Study suggests new lessons on COVID-19 and mass incarceration
Results of a new Harvard paper are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument against mass incarceration.
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Arts & Culture
A lens for detail
Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”
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Nation & World
Will a historically diverse new coalition bring big changes to Israel?
Robert Danin, a career U.S. diplomat, and Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and vice prime minister of Israel, discuss the potentially historic moment in Israeli politics as a coalition tries to end the 12-year run of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Arts & Culture
A way in
Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.
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Campus & Community
1,962 admitted to the Class of 2025
Nearly 85 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2025 say they will come to Harvard in the fall. Financial aid was a significant consideration in many of their decisions, according to William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions.
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Campus & Community
Global alumni community gather for first virtual annual meeting
The Harvard Alumni Association virtually convened the 151st Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Friday.
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Arts & Culture
Wonderland reimagined
Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”
