Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Campus & Community
New learning curve
After 18 months away, Harvard students returned cautiously and excitedly to physical classrooms across campus.
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Arts & Culture
Fresh insight in familiar frames
Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.
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Campus & Community
Making a splash
Harvard student swimmer David Abrahams wins silver in his first Paralympics in Tokyo.
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Arts & Culture
Spotted at Radcliffe: A brain exploding into rainbows
While spending a year at Radcliffe working on her latest book, Lauren Groff switched gears after attending a talk by a fellowship classmate — and started a project focused on a medieval nun.
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Arts & Culture
A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death
Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.
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Health
Diet may affect risk and severity of COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital study links healthy plant-based foods with lower risks of getting of COVID-19 and of having severe disease after infection.
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Nation & World
The day of
Former Harvard students recall the confusion and fear of 9/11, the desire to do something, and the sense that everything would be different now.
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Nation & World
Born to take on Islamophobia
Harvard Muslim Americans discuss the impact of Sept. 11 on their lives and what it means to be Muslim American 20 years after 9/11.
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Nation & World
‘I never saw a survivor’
On the morning of 9/11, David Battat, a Harvard grad and longtime volunteer firefighter, got a call from his College roommate telling him that a plane had crashed into a tower at the World Trade Center and urging him to stay away. Battat assured his friend he would remain where he was, hung up the…
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Nation & World
New York minute
When the planes hit the twin towers, Jill Radsken was a reporter covering New York Fashion Week in midtown Manhattan. Within minutes she was a news reporter capturing a world-changing terrorist attack.
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Nation & World
Choosing a concentration
A different kind of education awaited Joe Linhart ’03 in Iraq.
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Nation & World
Where were you when it happened?
Faculty and staff from across the University recall where they were on September 11, 2001, and how they think about the attacks 20 years later.
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Campus & Community
Head in the stars, hands in the dirt
The garden at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian provides nutrition and a visual feast that is open to all.
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Campus & Community
Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee
Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names vice provost for climate and sustainability
James H. Stock, a Harvard professor and economist known for his expertise on energy and environmental policy, has been named the University’s inaugural vice provost for climate and sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Making Shakespeare feel relevant
Jeffrey Wilson, who teaches Shakespeare to first-year students, says that skeptical students are often the most successful ones.
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Nation & World
Biggest threat to America? Not terrorism but apathy, expert says
In his new book, “Our Own Worst Enemy,” Extension School instructor Tom Nichols writes that the greatest threat to American democracy is the growing narcissism and nihilism of the public.
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Campus & Community
Forward thinker
As campus life resumes, President Larry Bacow says he hopes lessons learned from the pandemic can help us navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
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Health
Don’t let delta disrupt learning, expert says
Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist and director of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, says COVID vaccines for children should not be rushed and a return to in-person learning can still be navigated.
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Campus & Community
Need to embrace pandemic lessons
During the first Morning Prayers of the semester, Harvard President Larry Bacow reminded his listeners of the incredible challenges faced during the pandemic and called on them to remember the countless ways people across campus and beyond have supported each other in such difficult times.
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Campus & Community
John Harvard gets a facelift
A team of specialists cleaned and restored the iconic John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard earlier this summer, temporarily returning his golden toe to its original brown hue.
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Campus & Community
Thrown into the deep end in the psych ward
Excerpt from memoir chronicles an intern’s day in the ER.
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Arts & Culture
Art for everyone
Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.
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Campus & Community
Bacow celebrates community at dual Convocation
Convocation ceremony for the Class of 2024 and Class of 2025 was held in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Science & Tech
Like hitting a bullseye with closed eyes
Recently NASA updated its forecast of the chances that the asteroid Bennu will hit Earth in the next 300 years. Harvard statisticians put it into perspective.
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Campus & Community
Far from the madding crowd
Students, faculty, staff, and affiliates share their favorite places to write — courtyards, hallway alcoves, cafes, and library stacks — around Cambridge and Boston.
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Health
When the U.S. health care system met the comic book
James Sturm used his skills as a comic book artist, and the help of several Harvard undergrads, to create a comic book that breaks down the health care industry.
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Nation & World
How to help your kids with classroom anxieties
Experts from the Harvard Graduate School of Education offer advice to parents and teachers on how to ease student anxiety as another pandemic school year begins.
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Campus & Community
Serving up conviviality — and rocket spikes
For 40 years, the Rhino League has been played on the Harvard Bio Labs volleyball court.
