Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
How Harvard is handling COVID vaccinations
The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, executive director of Harvard University Health Services, about how the University prepared for the arrival of vaccine, where we are now in the process of vaccinating the Harvard community, and why it’s so important for everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Reaffirming inauguration rituals after Capitol assault
How the symbolic aspects of a cornerstone of American democracy evolved.
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Nation & World
The oddities of Inauguration Day
An interview with constitutional scholar Sandy Levinson about the history behind Inauguration Day and the reasons why he thinks it should be moved to an earlier date.
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Nation & World
Connection as an answer to turmoil
The Dalai Lama said that personal connections are the right response to the world’s turmoil, even amid COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Securing public spaces in the wake of Capitol violence
As the Capitol riot sparks a security surge, scholars mull how to maintain safe and open access to the nation’s symbols of democracy.
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Nation & World
Broad Institute director tapped for White House role
Eric S. Lander will step down from his role at the Broad Institute and will take a leave-of-absence from his faculty positions to serve as White House Science Advisor.
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Nation & World
A poetic beginning
First U.S. youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman to deliver reading at Biden inauguration.
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Campus & Community
For Artisan’s Asylum, moving day is coming
Artisan’s Asylum will move into Harvard-owned properties in Allston-Brighton this year.
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Nation & World
Project for Asian and International Relations goes virtual
HPAIR Harvard Conference 2021: Embracing Change goes virtual, running Jan. 15-18.
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Campus & Community
Big step forward for planned center to boost cell- and gene-therapy advances
A new cell manufacturing and innovation center, headed by a unique partnership between academia and industry, has taken a key step — signing a lease in Watertown for its new home — as it looks toward 2022 opening.
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Nation & World
Where are we now after a second impeachment?
The U.S. House of Representatives made history by impeaching a president for a second time.
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Nation & World
Lessons from teaching in COVID times
“Teaching and Learning at Harvard: Looking Back, Looking Forward” has Harvard deans looking at achievements and challenges from the past year.
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Nation & World
How to talk to your kids about the Capitol riots
Richard Weissbourd, a psychologist and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about how to navigate conversations around difficult topics with children of all ages.
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Nation & World
K-12 education appears on downward slide as pandemic continues
U.S. K-12 schools are struggling through a difficult school year, with a significant number of children who are learning remotely becoming chronically absent, a Harvard education experts said Tuesday.
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Science & Tech
Wielding a laser beam deep inside the body
Robotic engineers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Science have developed a laser-steering microrobot in a miniaturized 6 by 16 millimeter package that can be integrated with existing endoscopic tools.
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Campus & Community
Alumni committee nominates candidates for Overseers, HAA elected directors
From April 1-May 18, Harvard degree holders can vote for five anticipated vacancies on the Board of Overseers and for six openings among the HAA elected directors.
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Arts & Culture
Soundwalking around Harvard
Digital Sanctuaries Harvard is an app that invites the public on a virtual walk around and beyond Harvard’s campus through an ever-changing musical score.
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Health
Plant-based diet may feed key gut microbes
A large-scale international study uses metagenomics and blood analysis to uncover gut microbes associated with the risks for common illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.
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Nation & World
Democrats have both Congress and the White House — but not a free hand
In addition to winning the White House, Democrats will soon take control of Congress for the first time since 2007 after last week’s historic Senate runoff victories by the Rev.…
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Arts & Culture
To everything there is a season
Two online art exhibits from the Arnold Arboretum offer a seasonal view of the 281-acre preserve.
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Campus & Community
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, dies at 86
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, has died at 86. The professor of international economics also held many senior roles in U.S. government.
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Nation & World
Concern over storming of the Capitol
In a stunning display, violent insurgents who support President Donald Trump briefly occupied the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, disrupting its work on certifying the presidential election. Harvard faculty reacted critically, and President Larry Bacow said the rioters “assaulted the democratic process.”
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Health
Highly infectious coronavirus variant dampens prospects for summer return to normal
Will the British variant’s transmissibility upset summer plans?
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Nation & World
Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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Health
COVID-19 unmasked
A biology-based mathematical model indicates why COVID-19 outcomes vary widely and how therapy can be tailored to match the needs of specific patient groups.
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Campus & Community
Ezra Vogel, leading expert on East Asia, dead at 90
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, died Dec. 20 at Mount Auburn Hospital due to complications from surgery. He was 90. A remarkable contributor…
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Nation & World
Toppling the myth of meritocracy
The myth of meritocracy is not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in his new book, but it also fuels our divisiveness.
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Health
(Not) feeling the burn
A study of diet has found that by adhering to specific guidelines, women can reduce more than one-third of incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms.
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Science & Tech
Astrochemist brings search for extraterrestrial life to Center for Astrophysics
Clara Sousa-Silva, whose expertise in phosphine as a biosignature gas was key to a recent analysis that may have detected life in the clouds of Venus, has moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for the final two years of her fellowship. She discusses the finding and the broader topic of the…
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Nation & World
TGIO (thank God it’s over)
With 2020 behind us, it is apparent that this January won’t be one for resolutions but rather anti-resolutions: the things we’d rather not see or do ever again, thank you.
