Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
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Nation & World
Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students
Christina Cross discusses new research that suggests that financial and other resources are also key to success for youth.
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Nation & World
Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Work & Economy
Taking the crypto out of digital currency
Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Primavera De Filippi discusses the current state of cryptocurrency.
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Health
Chipping in to detect stroke
A clinical trial found that for certain patients, a small chip under the skin may help predict the likelihood of a second stroke.
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Campus & Community
New VP for human resources
Marking the culmination of a national search, Manuel Cuevas-Trisán has been appointed Harvard’s new vice president for human resources.
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Campus & Community
Melinda French Gates receives Radcliffe Medal
The trailblazing work of Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, advocate for the rights of women and girls, and fighter for gender equity, was the focus of Radcliffe Day.
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Nation & World
Fixing the internet will require a cultural shift
Harvard expert Fran Berman advocates for prioritizing public interest over profit with tech innovation and social and regulatory controls.
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Campus & Community
Looking at public health through an LTGBTQ+ lens
Austin Marshall, M.P.H. ’21, wants to be a physician-advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and care for patients as a doctor.
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Campus & Community
Engineering change
After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.
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Campus & Community
What the easing of Mass. COVID restrictions means for the University
The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, Harvard University Health Services’ executive director, and Bill VanSchalkwyk, the University’s managing director of Environmental Health and Safety, to learn more about what Gov. Baker’s announcement means for the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 7,640 degrees and certificates
At the ceremony honoring the Class of 2021, the University awarded a total of 7,640 degrees and certificates.
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Campus & Community
Real scenes from an online graduation day
Capturing the moments of celebration as Harvard recognizes the Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
Finishing the work left undone in America
Ruth Simmons, one of the nation’s top higher education leaders and president of Prairie View A&M University, called on Harvard and its graduating Class of 2021 to fight to close the chasm of inequality that recent years have illustrated still exists in America.
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Campus & Community
A year of strength and resilience
As life returns more to normal, there is so much to reflect on and to celebrate as we look back.
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Campus & Community
Five alumni join Board of Overseers
Five alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
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Campus & Community
The double life of Truelian Lee
Concentrating in chemistry and English, Truelian Lee blended art with scientific problem-solving to bring chemistry to wider audiences.
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Campus & Community
Finding a call to action in global poverty and blindness
Lawson Ung studied eye disease and the social determinants of where it’s most common
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Campus & Community
Honorands awarded for achievements in law, art, education, science
Seven honorary degrees will be awarded to Frances Hamilton Arnold, Martin Baron, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Salman Amin Khan, Margaret Hilary Marshall, Anna Deveare Smith, and Sebastião Salgado.
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Campus & Community
Blazing trails for others to follow
Eli Langley graduates as Harvard’s first Coushatta and the youngest Koasati speaker.
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Campus & Community
There is more to Jeremy Lin than ‘Linsanity’
NBA star and activist Jeremy Lin ’10 spoke to graduating seniors about how he’s come to see his identity as a barrier-breaking Asian American in a new light.
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Campus & Community
Aging matters
Sneha Dutta, Ph.D. ’21, wants to understand why individuals age differently and if there’s a way to counter old age’s harmful effects .
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Campus & Community
An instrumental scientist
Jerome Kagan taught at Harvard for 36 years. He died May 10.
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Campus & Community
Bacow tells seniors COVID-19 brought losses, but also growth
President Larry Bacow offered poignant reflections during the Baccalaureate Service honoring the Harvard College Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
Four in a million
In a virtual ceremony on May 26, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) awarded the Centennial Medal to four distinguished alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.
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Campus & Community
In their own words
DACAmented senior Tania Dominguez-Rangel wants to tell firsthand stories of undocumented immigrants.
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Campus & Community
Fueled by a love of education and creativity
Already a teacher and principal, Shahara Jackson came to Harvard hoping to learn how to become a transformational superintendent.
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Campus & Community
Scene: College
Actor Ece Hakim, who has appeared in 10 soap-opera-style television series and two movies in Turkey, plans to continue her career after graduation, this time in the U.S. But she values what she has learned from psychology, a discipline she recognized early on offers important insights for her work on the set.
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Campus & Community
Fueling a creative spark
Hands-on engineering challenges fuel Daniela Villafuerte to solve problems and help build a better world.
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Campus & Community
To support and defend the Constitution
Eleven undergraduates and one student at Harvard’s Extension School will commission as officers in the military during Commencement week.
