Featured series 
Month: March 2022
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Campus & Community
What climate education should look like
The Climate Education Committee looks to the Harvard community to help envision what climate education should look like in 2030.
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Campus & Community
Finding ways to help Ukraine
Grad student, first-years gather humanitarian aid, create website to pair foreign hosts, fleeing war refugees.
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Campus & Community
Puncturing myth of purity of science, technology
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Sheila Jasanoff, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, reflects on the long road she’s traveled to develop the field of science and technology studies.
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Campus & Community
‘Driven by alumni — and representing our community in a profound way’
Three members of the Harvard alumni nominating committee and the HAA executive director explained the committee’s work, the role alumni play at Harvard in elections, and what it means to get involved and vote.
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Science & Tech
Yes, cat is both dead, alive
Jacob Barandes’ new class combines philosophy and physics to look at quantum theory.
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Arts & Culture
Reclaiming Indigenous languages, cultures
Latinx studies scholar says colonial legacies left them devalued, at risk of being forever lost.
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Campus & Community
Merrick Garland to speak at Commencement for Classes of 2020 and 2021
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will be the principal speaker for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 Commencement ceremony at Harvard on May 29.
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Nation & World
Finding exit to war in Ukraine
Panel of Harvard experts will explore best way to negotiate an end to the fighting.
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Arts & Culture
Revisiting classic you can’t refuse
Director of the Harvard Film Archive Haden Guest talks about the lasting hold of “The Godfather” and its status as a milestone film.
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Nation & World
Supreme Court nominee’s pioneering background
Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court shines a light on an overlooked but vital area of the law.
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Health
Medical marijuana may trigger substance abuse
Obtaining a medical marijuana card to use cannabis products to treat pain, anxiety, or depression symptoms led to the onset of cannabis use disorder while failing to improve symptoms, says a new study.
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Campus & Community
A vision of universal, though not integrated, sisterhood
Radcliffe Fellow Amy Erdman Farrell is working on a book about the history of the Girl Scouts and its complex internal struggles with race and civil rights.
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Health
What’s behind post-COVID brain fog?
Experts trying to unravel why patients who recover from COVID-19 find they still have brain fog as part of their long COVID experience.
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Health
Excessive napping and Alzheimer’s linked in study
In a study of older adults, excessive daytime napping predicted an increased future risk of Alzheimer’s.
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Campus & Community
The 74-year-old College graduate
Robin Batteau wondered if he was up to the challenge, 50 years after family financial trouble disrupted his education. Come May, he’ll hold the proof in his hands.
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Nation & World
Bacow discusses role of higher education institutions in 21st century
Harvard President Larry Bacow spoke at Imperial College London about the future of universities, the war in Ukraine, world crises, free speech.
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Health
Novel therapy reduces depression in family caregivers
Researchers are now looking at a novel therapy for family caregivers that not only reduces depression, but also boosts well-being.
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Arts & Culture
Dreams and classics come alive in ‘Nighttown’
Composer and librettist Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg ’22 brings “Nighttown” to the stage.
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Nation & World
Reasons so many teachers joining Great Resignation
Experts at HGSE webinar say districts, schools could offer educators more support to slow departure of teachers.
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Nation & World
How Russians see Russia
Pockets of worry and anger, says ex-Moscow Times journalist, but anti-West sentiment won’t yield easily to Ukraine reality.
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Health
Hope for breast cancer patients, but with a cruel caveat
A new target for an old antibiotic is rooted in a decades-long effort to unlock the secrets of a lethal childhood disease.
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Campus & Community
Feeling at home at Mather House
How one Harvard House has kept residential life humming during pandemic.
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Nation & World
What would be signs protests in Russia are making a difference?
Kennedy School expert counts them off: large-scale rallies, staying power of opposition, shift in views of key individuals.
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Nation & World
Russia’s punishment is a global event
A Harvard panel on the Russia-Ukraine conflict included predictions of dramatic ripple effects as sanctions, corporate action take hold.
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Work & Economy
No panic in Furman’s reaction to inflation data, but plenty of uncertainty
Jason Furman explains the state of the economy and what consumers can expect during the next few months.
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Campus & Community
Housing Day is back in the house
After a two-year COVID hiatus, upperclass students return to the Yard to welcome first-years to their future homes.
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Work & Economy
Surprised by corporate reaction against Russia?
Oliver Hart discusses the swift response from corporations to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Health
‘Endemic’ is not an exit
Harvard’s William Hanage, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, outlines what an endemic SARS-CoV-2 might look like.
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Nation & World
Lessons of educator’s life
Brandon Foster hopes his journey from juvenile justice system to pursuit of doctoral degree in education leadership inspires struggling students.
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Campus & Community
Taking best of innovations, lessons of pandemic education
Task force releases report on how Harvard can create more engaging, equitable learning experiences.
