Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
Setting sail for service
Growing up in central Indiana, Gayatri Balasubramanian focused on academics and music, but when she came to Harvard she wanted to take on new challenges — and she did.
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Nation & World
Why the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil has become a humanitarian crisis
Marcia de Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil.
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Campus & Community
Making his impact
Yoseph Boku’s drive to make a difference started his first year at Harvard, when he realized he could help local disadvantaged teenagers and young adults.
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Campus & Community
Stantcheva honored by Carnegie Corporation
Stefanie Stantcheva was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, along with 25 others
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Health
‘Very strong degree of normality’ likely by year’s end
Though the so-far-successful U.S. vaccination drive is likely to deliver an approximation of normal life by year’s end, Anthony Fauci and a panel of heath care experts cautioned that the global battle against COVID-19 is far from won.
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Campus & Community
Police need to see themselves and be seen as a part of the community
Victor Clay has been appointed as the new chief of the Harvard University Police Department. Clay comes to Harvard from the California Institute of Technology, where he was chief of campus security and parking services.
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Campus & Community
Victor Clay named new Harvard police chief
Victor Clay, a law enforcement professional with more than 35 years of experience, has been named the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD).
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Campus & Community
A difficult financial year met with preparation, sacrifice, innovation, and teamwork
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, the Gazette has periodically checked in with Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, for updates on how the pandemic has affected the University’s finances.
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Nation & World
Climate change as a national security issue
Former Secretary of State Kerry calls climate change one of the biggest threats facing the nation.
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Arts & Culture
Field and streaming
This semester, Harvard archaeology students are dropping in on nearly 90 virtual classrooms as special guest speakers, telling more than 2,500 public and private school students and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools about subjects ranging from ancient tombs offerings in Mexico to trade practices in the Red Sea region.
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Campus & Community
Two named to lead Board of Overseers
Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a leader in consumer health care and retail, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2021-22 academic year. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a developmental psychologist and former vice provost for academics at Northwestern University, will be vice chair of the board’s executive committee.
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Science & Tech
Launch of pioneering Ph.D. program bolsters Harvard’s leadership in quantum science and engineering
Today, the University launched one of the world’s first Ph.D. programs in the subject of quantum science and engineering.
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Arts & Culture
And the Pudding Pot goes to …
Viola Davis celebrated winning Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year award during the virtual ceremony.
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Campus & Community
Pandemic from the rear-view mirror of an ambulance
The pandemic sent Jessica Miller ’21 home to West Virginia, where she found herself coping with remote classes while also helping her community through her work as an EMT. It helped her stay connected, she says.
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Nation & World
The fight for environmental justice
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
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Campus & Community
10 join American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.
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Health
With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
Since the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, public health experts have noted the disproportionate toll on Black and brown Americans. Those groups are at much greater risk of getting infected than white people; they are two to three times likelier to be hospitalized, and twice as likely to die, according to recent estimates from the…
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Campus & Community
New ideas for global warming solutions win $1M in funding
Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.
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Nation & World
In 14 months lost, some new educational gains
“Making Schools More Human,” part of the Graduate School of Education’s Education Now webinar series, explored what was learned from the pandemic that can be used to improve education going forward.
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Health
Salad or cheeseburger?
People in our social networks influence the food we eat — both healthy and unhealthy — according to a large study of hospital employees.
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Nation & World
The GOP house divided
Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.
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Campus & Community
Eyes on tomorrow, voices of today
From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.
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Nation & World
Ensuring the Floyd trial becomes a turning point
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.
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Arts & Culture
A 400-year community chronicle of African America
Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.
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Work & Economy
Isaiah Andrews wins Clark Medal
Harvard economist Isaiah Andrews has won the John Bates Clark Medal, recognized for developing statistical tools and models that help scholars to overcome research obstacles that can lead to inaccuracies.
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Campus & Community
Rediscovering the Square
In Harvard Square, new businesses emerge and old favorites awaken after a long pandemic year.
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Campus & Community
A sense of humor, giving space, trying to listen: Advice from 73 years of marriage
Judith and Herman Chernoff are believed to be among the oldest living couples in Massachusetts, if not the oldest. How have they done it? Herman Chernoff, a Harvard professor emeritus, and his wife are happy to share some tips.
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Health
Sleep easy
Research reveals distinct types of cells that may be involved in breathing-related diseases in infants.
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Arts & Culture
Unearthing ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’
Author and activist Julia Wright, filmmaker Malcolm Wright, and author and Radcliffe Fellow Kiese Laymon discuss the uncut version of Richard Wright’s novel “The Man Who Lived Underground” during a talk supported in part by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
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Campus & Community
My grandpa’s 100 hats
Shannon Freyer, an animal-care technician in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, shares stories about her grandfather, who died on his 86th birthday due to COVID-19.
