Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
New faculty deans at Adams House
New faculty deans at Adams House, Mercedes Becerra and Salmaan Keshavjee, will begin July 1.
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Science & Tech
Study aims to quell fears over falling human sperm count
Rising fears over declining human sperm count among men in Western countries may be overblown, according to researchers at Harvard’s GenderSci Lab.
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Campus & Community
They studied medicine, and suddenly COVID too
HMS students share how coronavirus and the pandemic changed their expectations and experiences of the last year.
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Campus & Community
Come fall, a new humanities program
Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.
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Campus & Community
A personal revelation put Nelson LaMarche on the right path
This self-described “germophobe” shifts from medicine to key research investigating obesity, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.
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Campus & Community
Wood becomes first woman to win $1M Waterman Award in math
Professor Melanie Wood has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, becoming the first woman ever to receive it in mathematics.
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Campus & Community
Changing lives through dentistry
For Kobie Gordon, M.M.Sc. ’21, the ability of dentists to transform lives by fixing smiles was a superpower he wanted to possess.
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Science & Tech
Turns out developing a taste for carbs wasn’t a bad thing
Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, health.
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Campus & Community
Watching passion and perseverance pay off
Whether building an aircraft or learning to break dance, Harvard College student Robert Malate chose his own path.
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Nation & World
French and German activist politicians discuss battling racism with legislation
Two prominent European human-rights activists appeared in a trans-Atlantic Harvard event on Thursday to discuss ways legislation on that continent can and has been used to fight racism.
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Health
When you dream of feeling naked in public — without a mask
The data gathered by Deirdre Barrett shines a light on how our subconscious is grappling with a time like no other.
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Campus & Community
Matthew Potts named Pusey Minister at Memorial Church
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a professor of religious studies and literature, an Episcopal priest, and an active member of the Harvard community, has been named Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, effective July 1.
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Health
Unraveling medical racism
On April 5, a group of historians tried to unravel that disturbing and familiar story of a lack of trust in the U.S. health care system in communities of color during the virtual talk “Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present: History Matters.”
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Nation & World
Analysts in economics, public policy give Biden infrastructure plan high marks
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.
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Campus & Community
13 ventures receive top prizes in President’s Innovation Challenge
Thirteen winners of the 10th annual Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge awarded $510,000 from Bertarelli Foundation.
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Campus & Community
Nathan Glazer, 95
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Glazer greatly influenced scholarship on American culture and ethnicity.
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Campus & Community
Richard Cooper, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Newell Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, was placed upon the records. Professor Cooper was particularly known for his seminal work on the theory and practice of international…
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Nation & World
How to get people to talk to one another again? Citizens’ assemblies
As part of The Solutions series, we interview Jane Mansbridge about a proven idea to help citizens engage in civil dialogue.
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Arts & Culture
Let there be light
The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
Cellist finds creative side to physics
When she came to Harvard as a first-year, Danielle Davis ’21 thought music was her focus … until engineering piqued her interest.
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Campus & Community
Cross-university fundraiser started to help India fight COVID-19
Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who helped quickly mobilize a cross-university fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 to help India battle COVID-19.
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Arts & Culture
Chronicling an American age of art, thought, and global engagement
Jorie Graham and Louis Menand discuss Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” his influences, and writing style.
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Campus & Community
Four Harvard faculty elected to NAS
Four Harvard faculty were among the 120 members elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Science & Tech
Why some die, some survive when equally ill from COVID-19
Researchers have identified a protein signature that may help answer the question, “Why do some patients die from COVID-19, while others — who appear to be just as ill — survive?”
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Health
Asian Americans more worried about racist Americans than coronavirus
A new survey shows that Asian Americans are more worried about the possibility of being a victim of pandemic-related racism than the virus itself
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Campus & Community
Hoop-la
Athlete, philanthropist, and the star behind “Linsanity,” Jeremy Lin ’10 has been named Class Day speaker by the Harvard College Class of 2021.
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Science & Tech
Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19
A Wyss Institute-led collaboration has used the institute’s organ-on-a-chip technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Science & Tech
Earth may have been a water world 3 billion years ago
A new study suggests Earth’s primordial ocean 3 to 4 billion years ago may have been much larger than it is today, and possibly covered the entire planet.
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Science & Tech
Antarctic Ice Sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says
The sea level in a warming world will be greater than anticipated, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.
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Campus & Community
Doing her part to change the world
Samantha Fletcher, Ed.M.’21, figured out a way to combine her passions for equity, education, and media when she started Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Technology, Innovation, and Education Program this past fall. Now she’s ready to change the world.
