Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
The cap (and gown) on a most unusual senior year
Harvard Class of ’21 reflects on experiences, gains, and losses during a challenging pandemic year.
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Campus & Community
Viewing the pandemic as a turning point away from old inequities, injustice
Three student orators will deliver speeches as Harvard honors the Class of 2021 on May 27.
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Campus & Community
Music and theater with a message
Harvard senior Joy Nesbitt has devoted much of her Harvard time to producing theater and music with a message.
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Campus & Community
Creating a niche
Harvard Medical School grad Ryoko Hamaguchi tapped her artistic talents as she bridge two worlds, two cultures.
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Campus & Community
The business of oral health care
Ashiana Jivraj brings a business background when seeking solutions to equitable dental care.
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Campus & Community
When things just add up
Opie Morgan says her years in the Math Department have been a time of validation and self-discovery.
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Campus & Community
Rahel Imru wants to bridge the science divide
For Rahel Imru, encouraging more Black students in STEM has been a goal since high school.
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Campus & Community
Divine rights
Eboni Nash came to Harvard Divinity School to study Black liberation theology and prepare for a career of activism around issues of racial justice and mass incarceration.
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Health
Tracking progression of disease through internet searches for symptoms
A College senior’s research project has shown a way to more quickly understand the characteristics of emerging diseases, by examining global internet searches for symptoms.
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Campus & Community
And how about the time Churchill snuck into Commencement — in September
University archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, who is retiring after almost 20 years at Harvard, shares notable Commencements and Harvard University Archives’ role in preserving each year’s ceremony.
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Campus & Community
Daily walks? Baking? Mindfulness? Which pandemic changes are keepers?
The Gazette asked members of the Harvard community what habits they developed during the pandemic and how they plan to keep them after the pandemic is over.
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Health
A community health worker intervention reduces hospital readmissions
The results indicate that CHW interventions may help reduce hospital readmissions and improve preventive care.
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Campus & Community
The quantum storyteller
Sukin “Hannah” Sim develops algorithms and writes the computational stories that dictate how quantum computers tackle problems.
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Campus & Community
A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid
Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.
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Campus & Community
Engineering a startup by degrees
When Michael Mancinelli ’15 arrived on campus to begin his journey through the M.S./M.B.A. program, it almost felt like he was coming home.
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Campus & Community
Open, wide
Once he graduates from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s endodontics program this month, William “Brennan” Arden will return to military service.
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Campus & Community
A community health advocate finds her voice
The COVID pandemic and anti-racism protests in 2020 gave Brett Dennis-Duke’s ongoing thesis work both urgency and perspective.
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Campus & Community
Teaching caregivers the language of anti-racism
The pilot run of the “GCP Family Book Club: Exploring Race and Identity” won kudos from participants.
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Campus & Community
Communities spirit
Class of 2021 graduate Christopher Altizer believes in the importance of a support network.
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Campus & Community
Turning hip-hop on its head
Austin Martin created Rhymes with Reason, a gamified learning experience that teaches students vocabulary and other ELA skills through hip-hop.
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Nation & World
Recalling the Tulsa race massacre, and calling for reparations
Rights activists and academics remember the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and focus on what remains to be done.
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Campus & Community
Forging ‘paths to creating impact together’
Harvard Alumni Association announces its new president, Vanessa Liu.
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Campus & Community
Some pomp for the circumstance
Harvard will kick off this year’s graduation ceremonies on May 23 with a range of virtual events to honor and recognize the Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
A collection of values, not just of valuables
With her new degree, Carmen Beals, A.L.M. ’21, is making a shift in her career as she works to diversify museums.
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Science & Tech
So why did you love ‘My Octopus Teacher’?
A panel of experts discuss the award-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher” and the inner life of the octopus.
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Science & Tech
Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.
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Campus & Community
Hausammann and Margulies to retire
Anne Margulies and Marilyn Hausammann, two of Harvard’s leading executives, with nearly 40 years of service to the University between them, will retire at the end of May.
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Campus & Community
Conversations of a different kind
For Graduate School of Design student Ayaka Yamashita, studying design was a way to understand human difference through various perspectives and mediums.
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Health
A key to the next pandemic: An early-warning system
How to stop a pandemic? Spot it early, let the pros spread the news, and engineer the heck out of it.
