Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Health
How a mutated coronavirus evades immune system defenses
A Harvard Medical School study shows how SARS-CoV-2 mutations allow the virus to evade the defenses of patients with compromised immune systems.
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Campus & Community
Harvard president reflects on past year, and looks ahead
Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on how the Harvard community has met the challenges posed by COVID-19, and to look ahead how the University is tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems.
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Nation & World
Cease-fire terms during Pontiac’s War: British retreat and one Black boy
In an excerpt from “400 Souls,” Harvard’s Tiya Miles discusses Chief Pontiac seeking a visible status symbol in a boy enslaved by an officer.
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Science & Tech
Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
A new Harvard study challenges the accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
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Work & Economy
Harvard Chan School launches public health program for business leaders
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launches public health program for business leaders.
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Campus & Community
The value of the written word
Peer Advising Fellow pen pals help Harvard first-years fit in — even from afar.
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Nation & World
Making gifts that keep on giving
Former Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch ’01, M.P.P. ’08, J.D. ’08, started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Navajo and Hopi communities respond to the coronavirus pandemic. She has raised $18 million.
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Science & Tech
Black hole on the move
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.
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Science & Tech
Model explains how life may have emerged on Mars
Harvard researchers have solved a decades-old mystery about how the early Martian atmosphere and climate may have evolved to support periods of warmth and running water on the planet.
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Health
Dental students fill the gap in online learning
Five Harvard School of Dental Medicine students created “My Dental Key,” an online platform with step-by-step video tutorials of dental procedures to supplement clinical and classroom learning.
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Science & Tech
All the ingredients for an expert space baker
Claire Lamman doubles as an astronomy graduate student at Harvard and an expert space baker.
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Campus & Community
‘We’re so much more than our day job’
The first Harvard Staff Art Show featured more than 280 pieces by 167 artists who work in other positions at the University
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Arts & Culture
Houghton acquires 1st edition of 1st African American novel
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
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Health
Professor, banking giant join on studies of rapid COVID tests to avoid future shutdowns
A new trial seeks to test whether cheap rapid tests given three times a week can keep the workplace safe despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
The House that will be home
On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.
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Nation & World
Just a misdemeanor? Think again
Criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff wrote a book about how the misdemeanor system punishes the poor and people of color. The book has inspired a documentary film, which will be released on March 11.
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Campus & Community
Looking back on Harvard’s COVID response one year later
Health experts, leaders, and staff offered input, helped devise Harvard’s coronavirus policy and procedures.
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Campus & Community
Bhargava is Class of 1996’s pick for chief marshal
Anurima Bhargava ’96, director and president of Anthem of Us, will serve as chief marshal as Harvard honors the Class of 2021.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard grad reflects on ‘Twilight Zone’ type of year
Harvard alum discusses his Grammy-nominated song “Stand Up” from the biopic “Harriet.”
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Nation & World
Madame Secretary
Former diplomat Madeleine Albright says sexism was a bigger hurdle at home than abroad.
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Nation & World
How the Black Church saved Black America
Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.
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Health
Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids
Harvard researchers looked at Katrina’s impact on children and how the lessons learned there could be applied to the COVID pandemic.
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Nation & World
Predicting homicides in disadvantaged neighborhoods
A neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but on those of the neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by.
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Nation & World
Native American program turns 50
The Harvard University Native American Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We look at how it started and its hopes for the future.
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Science & Tech
Uncovering hidden chemicals
New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod.
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Nation & World
The conservative club that came to dominate the Supreme Court
In a new audiobook “Takeover,” Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman explores the rise of the Federalist Society.
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Science & Tech
A ‘miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics
Researchers prove they can engineer proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments to help neuroregeneration, cytokine storm.
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Nation & World
Head of global atomic energy agency details 11th-hour talks with Tehran
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi discussed his recent trip to Iran, his negotiations with Iranian leaders, along with the extra burdens placed on his agency by the dangers of the pandemic.
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Science & Tech
Engaging AI in the battle against Alzheimer’s
A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The method could represent a rapid and inexpensive way to repurpose existing therapies.
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Campus & Community
The new breakfast club
What started 13 years ago as a welcome gesture from a towering figure at the Law School to a new basketball coach has become a monthly balm, an oasis of multigenerational community and education.
