Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Nation & World
Solving racial disparities in policing
Experts say approach must be comprehensive as roots are embedded in culture
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Nation & World
An overhaul for justice
Ana Billingsley, assistant director with the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines inequities in the criminal justice system.
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Nation & World
A key to ending racism: Make it personal
In his new book, “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations,” Robert Livingston of the Harvard Kennedy School argues that racism can be battled with constructive dialogue.
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Campus & Community
When it’s time to jump into the deep end
Amid pandemic with a load of seven classes, Michael Cheng decided he needed to teach himself to swim.
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Health
We may duck a surge from variant that sent Britain reeling
A Harvard epidemiologist said the forces of seasonality, slowly rising immunity, and shifting personal behavior will likely create a viral variant landscape with regional spikes in the months to come rather than a uniform national wave.
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Nation & World
So why did the state vaccine-reservation system crash?
David Eaves, an expert on information technology and the government, discusses why governments seemingly struggle to implement tech tools such as vaccine appointments or health insurance enrollment.
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Campus & Community
In memoriam: Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, a beloved Emeritus faculty member and mentor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, died on Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 99.
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Science & Tech
AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities
Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify the people within a social network who can most effectively promote information about HIV prevention to their peers.
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Campus & Community
Welcome to the new Harvard.edu
The new homepage is designed to be a streamlined entry to the University’s digital presence intended to ease navigation, provide information for students, families, affiliates, and visitors, and tell Harvard’s story.
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Campus & Community
‘Black & Jewish Talk Series’ starts with ‘A Conversation’
The Center for Jewish Studies and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research debut their “Black & Jewish Talk Series” with “A Conversation.”
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Nation & World
Seeded amid the many surprises of COVID times, some unexpected positives
We ask experts in the fields of medicine, biology, public health, education, religion about the unexpected upsides in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Science & Tech
Wanted: Bold ideas
The Star-Friedman Challenge for Scientific Research is ready to provide seed funding for high-risk, high-impact work in the life, physical, and social sciences. Harvard researchers have until March 1 to apply for the funding.
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Nation & World
On the road to JFK
Fredrik Logevall, whose recent book, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956,” covers the president’s early years. In conversation Monday with fellow historian Jon Meacham, Logevall discussed his findings and offered some hints as to what is to come in the second volume.
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Campus & Community
With revamped master’s program, School of Education faces fresh challenges
When the Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes its Class of 2022, it will usher in a newly redesigned, and newly customizable program of study.
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Health
Young adults hardest hit by loneliness during pandemic
As experts worry the COVID pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests some of the hardest hit are older teens and young adults.
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Nation & World
Black voters take the wheel
Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown explains how decades of painstaking activism culminated in Black voters’ decisive and historic role in the 2020 election.
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Health
Exercise: It’s all about timing
Based on observational data, it was found that the timing of daily physical activity was linked to fitness levels and cardiovascular risks in men with Type 2 diabetes.
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Nation & World
For the first time, a Native American may oversee U.S. policies on tribal nations
Harvard community members react to the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland as secretary of Interior, the first Native American in the department that is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Science & Tech
The cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs
New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs
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Health
Chan School study gives airports high marks in COVID safety
Harvard scientists say airports are employing a layered approach to make air travel safer for those who must fly.
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Nation & World
Taking systemic racism from a solvable problem to an achievable solution
At a Kennedy School talk, lecturer Robert Livingston outlined ways organizations can help lessen racism.
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Arts & Culture
O Superwoman
Avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson brings her unique style to the Norton Lectures in a series of virtual presentations.
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Campus & Community
Developer reveals plans for first phase of Allston project
Plans are underway for the initial phase of development of the Enterprise Research Campus, set to be located adjacent to the new Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and across the street from Harvard Business School.
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Nation & World
How Trump illustrated the need for more curbs on presidential power
A webinar discussion between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Bob Woodward and current DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on presidential accountability reform.
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Nation & World
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Marya T. Mtshali spoke to the Gazette about the long history of American fears of racial mixing, the importance of decentering whiteness in discussions of race and relationships, and why we should value love as a scholarly subject.
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Health
How older adults may be doubling their risk of dementia
A new survey found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep in the older adult population was associated with double the risk of dementia.
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Arts & Culture
We’ll always have ‘Casablanca’
The Brattle Theatre will continue its tradition of airing “Casablanca,” offering the iconic 1942 movie through a virtual screening over the long weekend.
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Nation & World
Lessons from an older Gilded Age for a new one
Professor Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discussed their new book, “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again,” at a Kennedy School event.
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Health
Upgrade your mask as more-transmissible COVID strain surges
With new coronavirus variants on the U.S. pandemic scene, experts say brace yourself for another surge — and mask up.
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Health
A diet that’s healthy for people and the environment
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, takes a closer look at a diet that is as healthy for you as it is the planet,
