Featured series 
Month: July 2022
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Arts & Culture
Maybe this book will change your life
Harvard scholars share from experience stories and ideas of uncommon wisdom
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Arts & Culture
Knowledge isn’t everything
An interview with Emily Ogden ’02 about her new book, “On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays.”
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Health
Gorge today, sweat tomorrow? That’s not how it works.
Researcher I-Min Lee outlines fresh data showing that you can’t outrun a bad diet.
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Health
Eating fish linked to skin cancer risk
In a new study researchers determined that people who eat about 2.6 servings of fish per week have a higher risk for the skin cancer melanoma.
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Health
Can music improve our health and quality of life?
New research shows the use of music interventions — listening to music, singing, and music therapy — can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.
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Campus & Community
The still moment
Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the geometry found in spaces and places on campus.
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Campus & Community
Harvard files brief with Supreme Court in admissions case
In a brief filed Monday with the Supreme Court, Harvard defended its interest in pursuing the benefits of student-body diversity and the consideration of race as one factor among many.
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Campus & Community
How to move a dragon — fast
Harvard’s Dragon Boat racers find fun, fellowship, and amazing views of Boston.
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Health
Breast milk tied to better outcomes for preemies
A 7-year study shows benefits in academic achievement and other neurodevelopmental measures.
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Science & Tech
When you talk silly to baby, the world joins in
Study finds striking similarities in infant-directed speech and song in cultures spanning six continents.
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Nation & World
How to liberate African art
In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.
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Nation & World
‘Life of the mother’ is suddenly vulnerable
Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world.
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Campus & Community
Putting access for all first
Harvard’s affinity group for people with disabilities and their allies, Ability+, celebrates two years.
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Campus & Community
Green light for first phase of Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus
Allston project wins unanimous approval from Boston Planning and Development Agency.
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Campus & Community
Committing to good, for good
Martha Minow, chair of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery implementation committee, talks about the work begun to fulfill the report’s recommendations.
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Campus & Community
A step toward a more gender-inclusive Harvard
Sherri Charleston and Nicole Merhill discuss an expanded set of self-identity options available to Harvard employees in PeopleSoft.
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Work & Economy
So what happened to crypto?
Harvard Business School’s Scott Duke Kominers explains the recent downturn in the cryptocurrency market.
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Arts & Culture
Some dads are super, some are stupid. Meet Mr. Neither.
Keith Gessen ’98 talks about being a first-time parent and his new book, “Raising Raffi: The First Five Years.”
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Nation & World
Were Jan. 6 attackers extremists? Protesters? Patriots?
How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Health
Spirituality linked with better health outcomes, patient care
Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Health
Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers can predict post-op delirium
Researchers have found a way to predict if an Alzheimer’s patient will develop postoperative delirium, a common complication in older patients.
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Campus & Community
Harvard begins search for 30th president
Penny Pritzker shares details around the search for the 30th president of Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2026 yield continues robust trend
Admitted students will benefit from expansion of Harvard Financial Aid Initiative.
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Health
Drivers who are frustrated, distracted, mad — and somewhat rusty
Traffic stats show that roadway deaths spiked during the pandemic. Can it be that we were not only distracted and frustrated, but also out of practice?
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Science & Tech
Tracing history of early seafarers through genes
New genetic research shows untold migration to remote Pacific islands was generally matrilocal.
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Campus & Community
Pritzker on road ahead for Harvard
The Harvard Gazette sat down with Penny Pritzker ’81, who became the Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow on July 1, to talk about her deep ties to Harvard and her views on today’s economic challenges.
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Science & Tech
Teaching algorithms about skin tones
Google adopts sociologist’s skin-tone scale, which aims to promote inclusion, diversity, help fix problems in facial recognition, other technologies.
