Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
Devah Pager, 46
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology, was placed upon the records. Pager was renowned for her research on hiring discrimination and the consequences of mass incarceration.
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Campus & Community
1,968 total accepted to the Class of 2025 as regular-decision letters go out
Harvard College has offered admission to 1,223 applicants for the Class of 2025 through its regular-action program, with 1,968 admitted in total, including those selected in the early action process. The total number of applications for the Class of 2025 was 57,435, a marked increase from 40,248 for the Class of 2024.
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Science & Tech
A pain in the tooth
Odontoblasts have a newly discovered function: sensing cold, which can trigger pain in teeth. But scientists have also found a way to block the pathway to cold-sensitive teeth.
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Arts & Culture
With a wave of the wand
With a shared love of magic, two students founded the Society of Harvard-Undergraduate Magicians, known by its clever acronym, SHAM.
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Science & Tech
How we handle stress at 45 linked to prenatal exposure
Men and women whose mothers experienced stressful events during pregnancy regulate stress differently in the brain 45 years later, results of a long-term study demonstrate.
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Campus & Community
Harvard journal speaks to publishers’ association
Harvard Data Science named best new journal in science.
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Arts & Culture
Foundation names Taraji P. Henson Artist of the Year
Taraji P. Henson was feted as the 2021 Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.
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Nation & World
Retracing steps to anti-Asian racism
As Asian Americans face random acts of violence, a symposium looks at centuries of entrenched racism, much of which has been fostered, if not engendered, by the media and the fears of white America.
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Health
Approval of at-home tests releases a powerful pandemic-fighting weapon
FDA approval of two over-the-counter rapid antigen tests promises to transform the testing landscape around COVID-19, lowering cost and giving the certainty of knowing when you’re infected to the individual, a Harvard epidemiologist said.
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Science & Tech
An itching question
Insights at the intersection of the nervous, immune systems point to the culprit.
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Arts & Culture
A feast for the eyes, sort of
A panel of experts explored the various ways in which the history of food in art tells a story of creativity and craftsmanship during a recent virtual talk sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and presented in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services.
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Work & Economy
Innovation, persisting
The New Venture Competition features entrepreneurs adapting to challenging times.
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Campus & Community
A table set for two
Kathy Santoro, director of HR Programs and Operations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, remembers time spent with her mother before losing her to COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Where’s Super Mario?
Mario Leon picked up the nickname Super Mario as a sign of affection over his lengthy tenure as the warm, helpful building manager at Pforzheimer House.
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Nation & World
Rallying religious and health leaders to prevent child abuse
“Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse,” an online symposium on April 8, will bring together survivors, public health experts, and religious leaders from various traditions to explore best practices for confronting and ending such abuse as well as promoting recovery.
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Health
Cancer vaccine shows durable immune effects
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given.
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Campus & Community
Navigating the Yard
Alyssa Goodman’s class in predictive systems took 28 students all over Harvard Yard as they followed the same directions.
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Nation & World
An emphasis on diversity in Biden’s first court nominees
Maya Sen, a political scientist and professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, praises President Biden’s initial picks to fill vacancies on the federal bench.
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Science & Tech
How chronic stress leads to hair loss
A Harvard study has confirmed that stress can lead to hair loss.
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Campus & Community
Where the wild things are
Capturing the creatures that grace Harvard’s buildings, gates, and shields
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Arts & Culture
Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by…
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Nation & World
A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects
Gazette spoke with Philip Deloria, chair of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, to learn about the importance of following both the law and the spirit of the process, what the Peabody has already accomplished, and its future plans.
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Arts & Culture
Round 2: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’
William Tsutsui, who teaches a course that explores the rich history of Japanese monsters, says which one will win the new “Godzilla vs. Kong” is anybody’s guess.
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Nation & World
Post-pandemic challenges for schools
Bridget Long, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the field of education.
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Science & Tech
Finding a way forward on climate change
If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
Reordering the court
The Law School panel “Reform of the Supreme Court?” looked at current problems in the Supreme Court, and possible ways to fix them.
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Nation & World
Fighting for equality at the ballot box
Law School affiliates talk about the fight for racial equality at the voting booth.
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Nation & World
Origins of a storm and the roots of a reckoning
Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, examines the roots of this current racial reckoning in the leadership that grew out of the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Nation & World
In their own words
Aaron Mukerjee ’16, J.D. ’21, discusses the The Voting Rights Act, which aims to help minority-language voters have their voices heard.
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Health
When the heart takes a beating
New study provides insights on how stress-related brain activity can temporarily damage the heart.
