Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Nation & World
Legal historian traces ‘racism on the road’
Columbia Law Professor Sarah Seo traces the long history of sometimes violent bias cops have shown against Black drivers.
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Health
Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong.
Study says that physical activity later in life shifts energy away from processes that compromise health and toward mechanisms in the body that extend it.
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Campus & Community
Doors reopen at Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
After having its doors closed for 20 months, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture has announced its in-person reopening Nov. 26.
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Campus & Community
4 Harvard seniors awarded U.S. Rhodes Scholarships
Students will pursue degrees in physics, linguistics, social science, public policy at University of Oxford.
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Health
Long COVID sufferers face physical pain, physician skepticism
Long COVID’s laundry list of ills include skepticism and doubt often conveyed in the doctors’ office.
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Science & Tech
Elizabeth Kolbert sees a world depleted, and possibly defeated, by climate change
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and Planetary Health Alliance Director Samuel Myers discussed whether humans can save the Earth during a “Weather Reports” panel hosted by the Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
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Arts & Culture
Competing visions
Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.
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Nation & World
How an authoritarian wields social media
Filipino journalist and 2021 Nobel laureate Maria Ressa issues a warning about information warfare on social media, and what it may mean for democratic institutions such as free press and free elections.
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Work & Economy
What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight
Harvard economist says economy is on right track, and there are few things he can try, but higher prices will eventually resolve themselves.
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Nation & World
Growing gap in STEM supply and demand
Education and industry experts say a large subset of students are not being fully prepared for STEM careers, listing ways to close the gap.
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Campus & Community
Harvard walks its talk on diversity, inclusion
Fourteen campus proposals have been awarded President’s Office grants between $2,000 and $20,000 to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Separating signal from noise at COP26
COP26, while a mixed bag, maintained progress toward global climate goals, says Rob Stavins.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing monuments to life
On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
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Health
Repurposing a familiar drug for COVID-19
New research points to a well-known and widely available drug called disulfiram (marketed as Antabuse) as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Confronting racism to renew America’s promise
In Theodore R. Johnson’s new book, “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America,” he delves into the America’s racist history in search of solutions to the “existential threat” that continues to shadow the land.
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Science & Tech
Meat and muscles, sure. But the human eye is a stretch, for now.
The author and MIT professor Ritu Raman discussed the promise and ethical challenges of a lab-shaped future.
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Arts & Culture
‘The steam and chatter of typewriters’
A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.
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Health
Scientists identify HIV patient whose body rids itself of virus
A second untreated person living with HIV shows no evidence of intact HIV genomes, indicating that her immune system may have eliminated the HIV reservoir.
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Science & Tech
When will a robot write a novel?
In considering whether a robot could write a work of fiction, the computer science Krzysztof Gajos says it depends—trashy novel or a good one?
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Health
Using AI to prevent blood clots, strokes
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to predict the risk of atrial fibrillation within the next five years based on results from electrocardiograms.
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Science & Tech
A Rosetta Stone of biology
Harvard researcher develops program to read any genome sequence and decipher its genetic code.
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Campus & Community
Passing the torch of representation
Young Black artist-animator Uzo Ngwu ’23 helps breathe life into film on trailblazing Harvard music historian Eileen Southern.
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Health
Skip the salt, grab the bananas
With a new level of accuracy, research has shown that a decrease in sodium and an increase in potassium may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Work & Economy
Take those old records off the shelf
After dominating the music industry, albums fell out of favor as CDs appeared. But vinyl has made a comeback and is having its best year in decades.
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Health
Chess is more than a game for researcher focused on brain health
The Chan School’s David Canning wants to follow the cognitive performance of chess players over time.
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Arts & Culture
A musical duo of mythic power
Eight years in the making, the opera “Iphigenia” makes its worldwide debut in Boston.
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Campus & Community
Does race have a sound?
History and literature seminar explores how certain qualities of voice, music, language, and other sounds have become signifiers of race.
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Science & Tech
Lessons in regeneration by light of glowing worms
Harvard-led team is learning secrets of regeneration through a method for manipulating genome, which allows a better view of workings of cells.
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Health
Pills could prove COVID game changer
Harvard specialists say COVID-19 pills may cut hospitalizations and deaths and offer big boost to nations struggling with low vaccination rates.
