Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Health
Blocking tau may help ALS patients
Mass. General study uncovers potential new treatment strategy for disease.
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Nation & World
After world leaders depart, hard talks begin at COP26
Emilly Fan ’22, reporting from Glasgow, describes pledges and coalitions, mitigation and adaptation, taking to the streets and fringe music fests.
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Health
Breakthrough within reach for diabetes scientist and patients nearest to his heart
One hundred years after the discovery of insulin, replacement therapy represents “a new kind of medicine,” says Douglas Melton, co-director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
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Health
Baby teeth may be window to child’s risk of mental health disorders
Baby teeth may reveal clues about the effects of childhood adversity, which research suggests is responsible for up to one-third of all mental health disorders.
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Campus & Community
Think higher-ed boot camp
Ashley Emann finds her place at Harvard as a military veteran.
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Nation & World
What’s the matter with kids today?
An interview with HGSE Professor Nancy Hill and Lecturer in Education Alexis Redding about their book “The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood.”
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Nation & World
Standoff over gun laws
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics discussion underscores difficulties of reconciling views on guns and public safety in U.S.
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Health
Potential fixes for COVID-related GI issues
A human Intestine Chip has helped identify drugs that can target GI symptoms associated with both the common cold and SARS-CoV-2 virus infections.
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Nation & World
Protests, inequality, and brutal crackdowns in Latin America
David Rockefeller Center panel details state of democracies in various nations across Latin America.
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Arts & Culture
Genuine heroines
Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.
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Nation & World
Exploring the dark, puzzling inner workings of Facebook
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who led the expose known as “The Facebook Files,” spoke about what he learned from his unsparing look behind the curtain at the internet giant.
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Science & Tech
If we could talk to the animals … whales, specifically
A group of scholars who met at Radcliffe in 2017 have formed a nonprofit aimed at deciphering whale communication.
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Science & Tech
A big discovery of a tiny critter
Discovery in 16-million-year-old amber is the third species of water bear ever found.
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Nation & World
How close is China to becoming an economic superpower?
After strides in its first century, Kennedy School scholar says China now faces hurdles in becoming an economic superpower.
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Health
Vaccine side effects or a doctor carrying COVID?
A new decision-support tool helped preserve the health care workforce by distinguishing symptoms associated with COVID-19 vaccinations from symptoms of the virus itself.
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Science & Tech
Mathematician’s life advice: Subtract the boring parts
Marcus du Sautoy discussed his latest work “Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life,” with Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics.
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Nation & World
Dispatch from COP26
In her first dispatch from Glasgow, Emilly Fan ’22 details urgent Commonwealth warnings, time in Blue Zone, good news for South Africa, and a Leonardo DiCaprio sighting.
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Health
Wondering about COVID-19 vaccines for kids 5 to 11?
Pediatric infectious disease specialist Kristin Moffitt offers parents insight on recently approved COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.
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Arts & Culture
How to pick a literary winner
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke with the Gazette about her role as chair of the panel that crowned “The Promise” by Damon Galgut this year’s winner.
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Nation & World
Closing the gender gap in nuclear security
Five nuclear security experts discussed ways to close the gender gap in their field during a discussion sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
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Campus & Community
Gary Edward Chamberlain, 71
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Gary Edward Chamberlain, Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Chamberlain was an econometric theorist of towering importance whose work deeply influenced econometric theory and the…
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Campus & Community
Richard Ernest Kronauer, 94
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Ernest Kronauer, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Kronauer was a renowned scholar of mathematical biology whose Harvard career spanned more than six…
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Campus & Community
Thomas A. McMahon, 55
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Arthur McMahon, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics and Professor of Biology, was placed upon the records. Professor McMahon was a pioneer in biomechanics.
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Campus & Community
David Layzer, 93
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late David Layzer, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Layzer was a theoretical astrophysicist noted for proposing thoughtful alternative interpretations of physical phenomena that were…
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Health
How acupuncture fights inflammation
Researchers have identified a subset of neurons that must be present for acupuncture to trigger an anti-inflammatory response.
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Nation & World
Chance of sun in Michael Pollan’s climate forecast
Michael Pollan says odds of saving the planet aren’t great but people can change their behavior, sometimes rapidly.
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Health
Love, death, fear, guilt, pride, hope, friendship, alienation, and so much sorrow. Through it all, they kept showing up.
Love, death, fear, guilt, pride, hope, friendship, alienation, and so much sorrow. Through it all, they kept showing up.
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Science & Tech
Why did some mammals develop tusks?
New study defines and traces the evolution of tusks from the first animals to sport them.
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Campus & Community
Becoming founders of a future FAS
Three-year process to open door to greater flexibility, innovation in teaching, research.
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Health
How death shapes life
With help from Kierkegaard, Rilke, and Heidegger, Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, examines the ways we process mortality.
