Featured series 
Year: 2022
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Health
New AI tool can predict melanoma recurrence
A new AI tool may help clinicians determine which early stage melanoma patients would likely benefit from aggressive treatment even at the onset of the disease.
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Campus & Community
‘Believe it’
This may be Carrie Moore’s first time in the top job of a program, but the new and inaugural Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Basketball has a long resume.
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Work & Economy
When agreeing to disagree is a good beginning
Experts in negotiation at a Harvard alumni event say productive conflict starts with honest, opening listening.
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Science & Tech
How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.
Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.
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Campus & Community
Start-the-day rite
To start the day right or wind down in peace, many of us rely on rituals, whether physical or spiritual. Here are four rituals that carry us through.
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Campus & Community
Sally Falk Moore, 97
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Sally Falk Moore was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Ezra Feivel Vogel, 90
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ezra Feivel Vogel was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Health
When our cells turn against us
Cells are the building blocks of life, Siddhartha Mukherjee says in his new book, but their vulnerabilities are also our vulnerabilities.
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Campus & Community
Sniffing for smiles
Meet Sasha, newest member of Harvard police force. Her duty? To spread joy.
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Nation & World
Harvard defends admissions policy before Supreme Court
Lawyers cite wider value of campus diversity on culture, economy of nation, push back against claims of bias against Asian Americans.
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Nation & World
‘Defend Diversity’
Harvard students join others from around nation in Supreme Court rally supporting race-conscious admission policies.
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Nation & World
Michigan, California speak from experience in briefs supporting Harvard
Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.
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Nation
Unfinished business
Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go.
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Nation
What to know about Harvard’s case in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to decide whether race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina can continue.
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Science & Tech
A global beacon on climate change
Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability casts off with University-wide, interdisciplinary approach to begin finding real solutions to existential crisis .
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Campus & Community
Harvard students head for Supreme Court rally
They will join groups from other schools, activists, lawyers in support of campus diversity as justices hear admissions challenge.
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Nation & World
How Black thinkers wrestled with founding U.S. values amid slavery
Brown University political scientist says Frederick Douglass, others found racial domination at odds with ideals of republicanism.
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Campus & Community
Hempton to step down as Divinity School dean
David N. Hempton will step down as dean of the Divinity School at the end of the 2022–23 academic year. He will remain on the faculty of the School, where he will resume his career as a dedicated teacher and writer.
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Health
Study details better outcomes for Omicron BA.2 patients
A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital has determined that Omicron BA.2 is weaker than both Delta and the original Omicron variant.
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Science & Tech
Mystery of dark matter — and search for WIMP
MIT’s Peter Fisher details his new book, “What Is Dark Matter?,” at Harvard science event.
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Campus & Community
University appoints Richard Cellini to lead Legacy of Slavery remembrance program
Scholar who founded Georgetown project will direct efforts to identify Harvard-linked descendants.
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Nation & World
Lesson from Latin America for U.S. abortion rights movement
A panel on abortion rights and reproductive justice in Latin America explored the factors behind landmark decisions liberalizing abortion laws in Mexico and Colombia.
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Science & Tech
Climate opportunities in U.S. and around the world, but not enough action
Climate as a technological, intergovernmental, and people problem: experts gather at Radcliffe to discuss climate change.
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Science & Tech
Launching Salata Institute to marshal Harvard resources to fight climate crisis
Jim Stock discusses climate and sustainability mission and goals as the University community marks the launch of the Salata Institute.
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Science & Tech
Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellowships spotlight and support pathbreaking initiatives
Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.
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Work & Economy
We’re living longer so that just means we work longer, right?
The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.
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Science & Tech
Might be a balmy paradise. Might be a face-melting wasteland.
Harvard and MIT researchers warn that opacity models need to be improved to accurately interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Nation & World
Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality
Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.
