Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
All roads lead to Samyra
More than 5,300 people (and counting) follow Samyra Miller ’21 on Instagram, where she dispenses information and opinions on everything from how to choose a good Gen Ed course and strategies for navigating campus social scenes to where to get good coffee and her shopping hauls.
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Campus & Community
Pinning down a new future
Wrestling provided life lessons for senior Cliff Wang, even when the sport was taken from him.
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Campus & Community
In slavery’s shadow
Kelly Brignac grew up in New Orleans, immersed in customs that had deep roots in French culture. Now she is graduating with a Ph.D. that explores the exportation of French culture, and its roots in the slave trade.
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Campus & Community
Putting science to work
Inspired by a first-year human rights seminar, Francesco Rolando wants to help remove barriers to health care, especially for marginalized populations.
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Science & Tech
Charting the universe
Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever.
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Campus & Community
Here comes the sun, on Memorial Drive
Joggers, walkers, cyclists, and skateboarders enjoy the weekend closure of Memorial Drive along the Charles River.
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Science & Tech
High-speed internet at a crossroads
Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.
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Health
When 45 is the new 50
An independent expert panel has recommended that individuals of average risk for colorectal cancer begin screening exams at 45 years of age instead of the traditional 50.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in leadership
Monica Pesswani, M.C./M.P.A. ’21, came to Harvard seeking a global perspective as she worked to create educational equality in India.
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Science & Tech
A gut feeling
Researchers identify links between genetic makeup of bacteria in human gut and several human diseases.
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Nation & World
Harvard argues admissions suit isn’t worthy of Supreme Court review
Citing 40 years of legal precedent and two lower court rulings in Harvard’s favor, Harvard on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the request by Students for Fair Admissions that it review the College’s whole-person admissions practices and revisit decades of case law allowing the consideration of race as one factor among many…
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Campus & Community
Cultivating a career in science
It was her interest in research that brought Zahra Aldawood, D.M.Sc. ’18, M.M.Sc. ’21, to Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Campus & Community
Keeping her goals in focus
Rawan Alhawamdeh has a vision for improving the lives of children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and giftedness.
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Work & Economy
Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
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Nation & World
Annette Gordon-Reed on Texas history and growing up there in the ’60s and ’70s
Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the history of Texas, blending research and personal memoir.
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Nation & World
Only a little change for migrants at the U.S. border
The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Nation & World
‘In India, anything and everything is a super-spreader event’
As COVID-19 cases in India soar and a new variant is identified, Harvard Chan School’s S.V. Subramanian offers some observations.
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Campus & Community
Sally Falk Moore dies at 97
Sally Falk Moore, a legal and political anthropologist and Harvard Law School legend, dies at 97.
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Science & Tech
Not so black and white
Harvard researchers identify a mechanism with therapeutic potential for anemia.
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Campus & Community
Reaching for the stars
Using robotic telescopes and other engaging astronomy activities, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian hope to spark interest in the sciences.
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Nation & World
Three notable immigrants who served their adoptive land
Madeleine Albright, Dina Powell McCormick, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro discuss the role of foreign-born Americans.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Athletics opens the vault to sports highlights
The launch of the new Harvard Athletics Video Vault makes it possible for sports fans to relive some of the University’s most historic sporting moments.
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Arts & Culture
A.R.T. maintains global collaborations, with technology and remote coordination
American Repertory Theater has been focusing on international collaborations, taking lessons from its recent productions that were able to bring live theater back abroad.
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Health
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
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Health
Brainstorming a cure
Regulatory T cells in the brain can be reprogrammed from guarding glioblastoma tumors to attacking them from within.
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Campus & Community
The rhythmatist
Graduate Rajna Swaminathan has spent the better part of her life exploring, improvising, and bringing together different worlds — in music and in life.
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Campus & Community
Building on a vision
Steven A. Chambers, Ed.L.D. ’21, likes a challenge, even if it is figuring out how to educate children when indoor classrooms aren’t an option.
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Science & Tech
Battery breakthrough for electric cars
Harvard researchers have designed a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that is far more efficient than lithium-ion batteries.
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Campus & Community
New dining services director brings focus on nutrition, sustainability, inclusion
New Harvard dining services director brings focus on nutrition, sustainability, inclusion.
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.
