Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Health
This is your body on carbs, in real time
By studying how cells from healthy normal weight and overweight participants broke down carbohydrates in real time, researchers have found clues about what triggers metabolic distress.
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Nation & World
When your role model wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Harvard undergraduate Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara was thrilled when he learned journalist Maria Ressa had received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Health
Behind ‘Dopesick,’ anger and hope
The new Hulu series is based on the bestselling book “Dopesick” by Beth Macy, a journalist and former Nieman Fellow.
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Campus & Community
Justice for all
Phillips Brooks House Association honors disability activist Mia Mingus with the 15th Annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” award.
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Health
Fetal sex a factor in COVID-19 immune response, study says
A new study finds that placentas of male and female fetuses respond very differently when a mother is infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy.
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Nation & World
Political spark that ignited firestorm across dry, divided land
In his new book, “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury,” Evan Osnos ’98 writes about the transformation in U.S. between 9/11 and the attack on the Capitol.
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Science & Tech
New gene-transport system gets more drugs to sick muscles
A newly engineered gene-delivery system has the potential to make gene therapy for muscle diseases both safer and more effective for patients.
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Nation & World
Powell’s legacy, in admirers’ words and his own
Kennedy School faculty reflect on the death of former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, a groundbreaking diplomat, Pentagon chief, and Army general.
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Nation & World
Where are we now, 16 months after George Floyd?
As part of the Truth and Transformation conference at Harvard Kennedy School, Ibram X. Kendi and Heather McGhee spoke about the challenges the movement faces.
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Science & Tech
More climate research, teaching to make greater impact
The new vice provost for climate and sustainability talks about upcoming efforts to boost Harvard’s response to challenges presented by climate change.
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Health
Every step counts
Using an eight-year span within the Framingham Heart Study, researchers are able to pinpoint how many extra steps or how many fewer minutes of sitting are needed to achieve improved cardiorespiratory fitness.
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Science & Tech
Brewery fit for a king
The remains of a 5000-year-old brewery found in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos are providing insights into the relationship between large-scale beer production and the development of kingship in Egypt.
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Work & Economy
Where’s all your stuff? It’s complicated.
HBS’ Willy Shih on the shipping logjam and trucking shortage that could spell trouble for holiday retails and how the ubiquitous dollar stores, which rely on imports from Asia and low wages, are hoping to defy dark trends.
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Campus & Community
The best thing I’ve done since return to campus
Harvard students talk about their best experiences since resuming in-person College life.
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Campus & Community
R&D alliance with Resilience to advance manufacture of complex medicines
Harvard University and Resilience announced a five-year R&D alliance to incubate new technologies and launch companies to advance the manufacture of complex medicines.
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Science & Tech
No one outruns death, but hunter-gatherers come closest
Our sedentary tendencies may be robbing us of a key benefit of physical activity.
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Campus & Community
University reports budget surplus despite pandemic challenges
The Gazette spoke with Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance Thomas Hollister to learn more about how the University’s performance got a boost from long-term planning, leadership at the School level, and the commitment of so many within the community to Harvard’s mission to teaching and learning.
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Campus & Community
Dear white women
Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard met while undergraduates at Harvard College. They later launched a podcast, “Dear White Women,” and published a book by the same name.
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Campus & Community
Sailors’ delight
Snapshots of Harvard’s sailing team practicing on the Charles River.
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Health
Children could be dangerous carriers of virus
A new study confirms that children can carry high viral loads of SARS-Co-V-2, making them possible spreaders of current and emerging variants.
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Science & Tech
Future sound of a Beatles playlist: drip, drip, drip
In a new paper, Harvard chemists describe a data-storage method that uses mixtures of seven fluorescent dyes to save files.
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Nation & World
Enough with the quackery, Pinker says
Steven Pinker thinks “we will always need to push back against our own irrationality,” but that education, democracy, science, and journalism, along with an awareness of our individual biases, can help us embrace a more rational approach to everyday issues.
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Campus & Community
Tenure-Track Review Committee releases recommendations
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Tenure-Track Review Committee released its 106-page review on the School’s tenure-track system, providing critical recommendations to Edgerly Family Dean Claudine Gay.
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Health
Tracing med student’s progress through notes on cancer patient
In this excerpt from her new memoir, Suzanne Koven traces her progress as a medical student through her notes on one cancer patient.
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Health
Beating colorectal cancer’s immunotherapy resistance
Now, new research led by investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Geneva provides insights on why some types of colorectal cancer don’t respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, and offers a strategy to overcome their resistance.
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Nation & World
One way is the wrong way to do math. Here’s the right way.
A conversation with Jon R. Star, psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, about how instructors can learn new ways to teach math.
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Nation & World
Rush to stop ‘Havana syndrome’
Intelligence analysts and reporters discuss the enduring Havana syndrome.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School reacts to Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize
Harvard Kennedy School fellow and journalist Maria Ressa has won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her fight for facts and truth in a world awash in disinformation.
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Nation & World
Laurence Tribe sees legal problems for Trump in Senate report
Laurence H. Tribe, one of the nation’s pre-eminent constitutional scholars, spoke to the Gazette about the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 394-page interim report that details efforts by the Trump White House to pressure senior officials in the Department of Justice to help promote false claims that the 2020 election was rife with fraud.
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Arts & Culture
Raised voices
Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.
