Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Science & Tech
Coming to grips with planetary existential threat
Environmental Science and Public Policy takes multidisciplinary approach to complex existential threat.
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Nation & World
Prized manuscript — and valuable lesson — unearthed in Soviet archive
Irina Klyagin discovers the value of historical documents along with an émigré ballerina’s memoir hidden by repressive regime.
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Work & Economy
A warning for academia in study of Great Recession-era hiring
Diversity efforts suffer in times of crisis, sociologists find, noting possible parallels amid pandemic.
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Nation & World
U.S. teens are following their parents into racial divide
Young people ‘perhaps even more polarized’ than adults, says economist Stefanie Stantcheva, lead author of new research on perceptions of racial gaps.
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Health
Rapid rollout of COVID vaccine as important as its efficacy
Scientists find that a rapid rollout of the COVID vaccine to low- and middle-income countries is as important as the vaccine’s efficacy.
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Health
Do we need to draw you a picture? Yes, or maybe a satiric cartoon
Wrestling with a health care conundrum: how to get people to listen?
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Campus & Community
Advocate for disability access receives Shinagel Award
Sunita Mittal Agarwal, A.L.M. ’13, received the 2021 Shinagel Award for Service to Others. Four additional graduates were honored by the Harvard Extension Alumni Association.
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Science & Tech
People weren’t so lazy back then
Research comparing 19th- and 21st-century Americans finds a half-hour decline in physical activity. Blame it on planes, trains, and automobiles.
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Nation & World
Heat rising, along with urgency and hope, as climate summit nears
Despite dire warnings of climate scientists, Harvard climate experts are encouraged by recent progress to fight it.
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Campus & Community
Four electric buses join Harvard’s fleet
Four new electric shuttle buses are expected to lower the University’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 220,000 pounds annually.
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Nation & World
Adam Schiff vows speedy, aggressive probe of Jan. 6 assault
Rep. Adam Schiff discusses why he sees his work on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as part of a broader continuum that began with the Ukraine matter.
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Health
Years after cancer treatment, sleepless nights
Researchers found that 51 percent of cancer survivors surveyed experienced sleep disturbances.
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Arts & Culture
Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril
Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?
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Arts & Culture
Checking in with the local ghosts
Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.
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Health
In a war zone, COVID isn’t the only health problem
A Chan School panel details need for broader health campaigns that also include various vaccines in conflict areas.
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Health
When COVID robbed children of their friendships, learning suffered
Relationships with peers, teachers, and counselors protect mental health and boost learning, experts say.
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Work & Economy
What happens to workers when factory shuts down?
Book follows a white female furnace operator, a black efficiency supervisor, and a white machine operator after a plant shutdown.
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Science & Tech
Leaky natural gas pipelines are tip of the iceberg
Methane emissions from the distribution and use of natural gas across U.S. cities are 2 to 10 times higher than recent estimates from the EPA.
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Nation & World
Dangers lurk in wake of U.S. pullout in Afghanistan
The shrinking U.S. Mideast presence and a growing Chinese influence are a bad mix, scholars say at a Harvard panel.
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Science & Tech
Tantalizing transit
Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time.
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Arts & Culture
In this writer’s life, the art of noticing comes first
Rachel Kushner discussed the connection, and differences, between writing fiction and essays at an online Writers Speak event.
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Campus & Community
A year of revelations
Baking, gardening, and other activities taken up during COVID provided a new perspective.
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Science & Tech
How asteroid, comet strikes may have delayed evolution of atmosphere
Collisions more common than thought and hampered growth of oxygen on planet, Harvard professor’s team finds.
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Health
New thinking on aspirin and colorectal cancer needs dose of nuance, expert says
The Gazette spoke with Andrew Chan, director of cancer epidemiology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, about the new thinking around aspirin.
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Science & Tech
Bad for 100-million-year-old crab, but good for scientists
Javier Luque’s first thought while looking at the 100-million-year-old piece of amber wasn’t whether the crustacean trapped inside could help fill a crucial gap in crab evolution. He just kind…
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Health
Viewing climate change as a human health problem
Renee Salas, an ER doctor and assistant professor of medicine, addressed questions about a new climate and health report from The Lancet.
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Science & Tech
Are Google and smartphones degrading our memories?
It’s been 20 years since Daniel Schacter first published his groundbreaking book on memory errors. In a recent talk he discussed some of those new findings, including how technology is helping and hurting.
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Work & Economy
‘I quit’ is all the rage. Blip or sea change?
Lawrence Katz answers questions about the historic wave of workers quitting their jobs during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Fresh strides in equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Sherri Charleston outlines new five-year strategic model for Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.
