Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Nation & World
New database tracks data on slaves, slavers, and allies
A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.
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Campus & Community
Adams House renewal moves forward
Adams House marks its first phase of renewal with the completion of Claverly Hall.
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Science & Tech
Know why conversations either seem too short or too long?
Conversations don’t end when people want them to because few people know how to end them politely, a Harvard study finds.
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Campus & Community
Bernard Bailyn, 97
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Crombie Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Schelling was a Nobel laureate in economics and developed principles for avoiding nuclear war.
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Campus & Community
Multimedia maven
Kristen Pope of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education is dedicated to uplifting her community.
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Campus & Community
Sidney Verba, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bailyn was one of Harvard’s most eminent historians.
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Campus & Community
Thomas Crombie Schelling, 95
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Verba profoundly changed political science and was one of Harvard’s most influential academic administrators.
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Nation & World
Two mayors talk pandemic, civic unrest, and the value of a network of peers
The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.
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Health
When even grief is taken away
With 500,000 deaths due to COVID, the U.S. has become a nation in mourning, often alone, also dealing with the trauma of the pandemic’s other effects, a combination that worries mental health experts.
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Arts & Culture
Magic, up close and personal
A small band of magicians present “The Conjurors’ Club” with the American Repertory Theater through April 4.
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Science & Tech
Smaller, faster, greener
Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing.
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Science & Tech
Signs of quantum science
Harvard’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and The Learning Center for the Deaf are working together to develop American Sign Language modules on quantum science topics for undergraduate students with the aim of increasing STEM opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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Campus & Community
Bloomberg Philanthropies & Harvard create new Bloomberg Center for Cities to support mayors
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University announced they will expand support for city leaders with a $150 million investment to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Redrawing the civics education roadmap
In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.
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Arts & Culture
How to examine troubling images
A number of Harvard faculty and experts took part in a discussion last week about how curators and faculty confront the challenges of teaching with and displaying legacy collections of photographs containing difficult subject matter.
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Work & Economy
Key to doing your best at work? Be yourself (no, really)
Being true to yourself at work, not trying to fit in, is key to personal success and an essential “first step” for corporate diversity, HBS professors say.
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Science & Tech
COVID-19 lockdown highlights ozone chemistry in China
During COVID-19 lockdown, China saw an increase in ozone pollution despite a drop in emissions from transportation and manufacturing sources. The question is, why?
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Science & Tech
Telemedicine for stroke patients improves outcomes
The first national analysis shows patients at hospitals that offer remote stroke consults fare and were more likely to survive than patients who presented at hospitals without stroke telecare.
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Nation & World
Biden may regret releasing report on Khashoggi murder
President Biden’s release of 2018 U.S. intelligence report on murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sets the stage for a significant shift in U.S.-Saudi relations from Trump era.
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Campus & Community
Puzzling out a life’s work
Orvin Pierre ’22 pieces together studies in science and humanism to prepare to be a physician.
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Campus & Community
A day at the beech
A photo gallery shows off the perseverance and beauty of the beech trees at the Arnold Arboretum.
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Campus & Community
Ruth Simmons to deliver principal address at Harvard celebration for Class of 2021
Prairie View A&M University President Ruth Simmons, who earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1973, will give the principal speech at the celebration for the Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
Renaming committee seeks input from Harvard community
Harvard’s Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming will begin soliciting input next week from members of the University through a series of open meetings, small group virtual conversations, online suggestion boxes, and more to help guide efforts to outline the process for when and how to replace contentious names of “buildings, spaces, programs, professorships, or…
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Health
Vaccines can get us to herd immunity, despite the variants
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread? A Harvard immunologist says yes.
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Work & Economy
Steps to zero
To keep its promise to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its portfolio by 2050, the Harvard Corporation directed Harvard Management Company to give an early assessment of where its efforts and investments stand now.
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Science & Tech
CAPTURE-ing movement in freely behaving animals
Harvard researchers develop a new motion-tracking system that delivers an unprecedented look at how animals move and behave naturally.
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Science & Tech
Losing time against climate disaster
In an online Harvard Science Book Talk, philanthropist Bill Gates warns of environmental perils ahead and offers a plan to combat them.
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Science & Tech
Unlocking the colors of insect vision
Harvard researchers develop in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School mourns the passing of Gustave ‘Gus’ Hauser
Longtime University benefactor Gustave M. Hauser cared deeply about developing ethical leaders. He died Feb. 14.
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Campus & Community
Harvard economist Robert Glauber dies at 81
A Harvard professor for more than five decades, Robert Glauber died at 81. , Among his many accomplishments, Glauber helped analyze the 1987 stock market crash and led negotiations to resolve the savings and loan crisis.
