Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Science & Tech
The science of siestas
Researchers have identified three distinct mechanisms that promote napping and found that many napping-related genes also regulate other aspects of sleep.
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Science & Tech
How jellyfish and sea anemones know when (and when not) to sting
A team of researchers from Nicholas Bellono’s lab has discovered how the trigger system of jellyfish and sea anemones stinging works on a molecular level.
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Nation & World
Organizing, but not compartmentalizing
LaTosha Brown, founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, shares insight on increasing voter turnout in a post-election conversation on Feb. 11.
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Science & Tech
1 in 5 deaths caused by fossil fuel emissions
A new study greatly increases estimates of the numbers killed by air pollution.
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Campus & Community
How creative communities thrive in Allston-Brighton
Harvard Ed Portal’s Winter Market helps artists in its Allston-Brighton neighborhood grow and thrive through pandemic’s ever-changing landscape.
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Work & Economy
How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace
As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.
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Nation & World
Young, athletically gifted, and Black — at Harvard
An all-star panel of former University athletes came together in a Black Varsity Association Zoom event to discuss the impact of race on the college and professional sports worlds.
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Nation & World
What to look for at Trump’s impeachment trial
Trump is the first president to be impeached for a second time and will be the first to be tried after leaving office.
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Campus & Community
‘In mens sana, in corpore sano’ — even in fourth grade
College students helped read Lindsey Metcalf’s “No Voice Too Small” and talked about the importance of staying active, even when school is at home.
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Campus & Community
Candidates for Harvard board positions announced
The slate of candidates has been announced for Harvard’s board elections this spring.
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Science & Tech
Scientists use trilayer graphene configuration to observe more robust superconductivity
The new three-layer system opens the door for high-temperature superconductors.
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Arts & Culture
Laurie Anderson is, as always, undaunted
As the recipient of this year’s Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry Laurie Anderson tells us how she is designing her six Norton Lectures for a virtual audience.
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Nation & World
Is this a tipping point for Putin?
Igniting growing demonstrations of outrage across Russia, the prosecution of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny could pose a rare challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s iron grip on power.
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Nation & World
Amid pandemic tragedy, an opportunity for change?
The Harvard chairs of a new Lancet commission studying universal health care in India say the coronavirus’ impact there has created a moment of opportunity for change.
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Health
How to make exercise happen
An excerpt from Daniel Lieberman’s newest book, “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding.”
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Nation & World
Being in the Super Bowl — and with your football heroes
Cameron Brate will line up with his idols and football legends Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski for Super Bowl LV.
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Campus & Community
Harvard issues report on sexual harassment
In an email to the Harvard community, President Larry Bacow announced publication of a report on sexual harassment at the University.
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Nation & World
10 years later: Was the Arab Spring a failure?
Ten years later, Arab scholars and analysts on campus take a closer look at the uprising known as the Arab Spring.
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Campus & Community
What I miss most about campus since the pandemic…
Members of the Harvard community reflect on what they miss most about being on campus.
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Campus & Community
Martin Stuart Feldstein, 79
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Martin Stuart Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, was placed upon the records. Professor Feldstein’s work led to new areas of inquiry and ways of carrying out research that countless…
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Campus & Community
Martin L. Weitzman, 77
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Martin L. Weitzman, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. A broad-ranging economic theorist, Professor Weitzman made many important research and policy contributions.
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Science & Tech
Tracking the proteins before Alzheimer’s takes hold
A team led by investigators has now developed an automated method that can identify and track the development of two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Nation & World
An unflinching look at racism as America’s caste system
Kicking off a monthly series designed to harness “the power of storytelling,” was Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
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Science & Tech
Microbes are around and within us but there’s much we don’t know about them
Harvard microbial ecologists take an up-close look at mouth bacteria.
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Science & Tech
Growing the family tree
More than one-third of the U.S. population is made up of individuals with recent ancestors from multiple continents. A new genetics tool helps uncover disease-associated gene variants in these individuals.
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Health
Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it, author says
An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
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Nation & World
Capitol losses
Following the Jan. 6 riot that left five people dead and 140 police officers injured, a Harvard panel of experts reflected on the critical damage done to democracy and the arduous work ahead to figure out how to save it.
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Campus & Community
On the road to a fossil fuel-free future
The University has invested in 100 percent electric buses, which hit the road this fall. The four buses will lower greenhouse gas emissions by more than 220,000 pounds annually.
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Health
Newest vaccine emerges amid a ‘more complicated pandemic’
Harvard Medical School Professor Dan Barouch said the “complicated pandemic” means more work lies ahead.
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Campus & Community
How does your garden grow?
Harvard Arboretum administration and staff discuss how they achieved record visitor numbers and what’s staying post-pandemic.
