Featured series 
Month: February 2024
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Health
What do we do with our loneliness?
‘Harvard Thinking’ looks at health crisis with experts Jeremy Nobel and Milena Batanova
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Health
A win for science, and patients, against brain injury ‘nihilism’
Hope for progress even after a 450-foot fall, trial shows, defying pessimism that hurts research and families
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Nation & World
Are top-ranked colleges really the best? Depends. At what?
Sociologist urges ratings focused on real-life outcomes, particularly in those from underrepresented groups
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Arts & Culture
Many splendored? Sometimes, but it’s always intriguing
Staff, faculty offer Valentine’s tips for books that cover what we talk about when we talk about love
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Health
We’re social beings. So are microbes.
When we pick up our neighbors’ bugs, we get the good as well as the bad and the ugly
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Arts & Culture
Bringing their whole selves to work
242 artists (with day gigs at Harvard) display in range of media at annual show
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Arts & Culture
Why are we unhappy?
Zen Buddhist teacher says it’s because we’re always struggling either to possess or avoid people, things, or situations
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Campus & Community
Need for moral revolution
Social scientist, former Biden official Alondra Nelson says work of new Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity can help shape policy, progress
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Nation & World
Helping scholars upended by Russia-Ukraine war
Davis Center’s Scholars Without Borders provides networking support, professional development to exiles, those living under siege
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Nation & World
Who cares what Taylor Swift thinks?
Lots of people! But that doesn’t mean she can sway an election.
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Campus & Community
Making Crimson history at Super Bowl
Appearance of Chiefs’ Jones, 49ers’ Juszczyk will mark 1st time there will be an alum on both sides of pro football’s biggest game
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Health
New evidence shows COVID-19 isn’t done with us yet
Study suggests lack of regular care and screenings set stage for worse public health outcomes, wider disparities
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Nation & World
‘Russia will always matter’
Fiona Hill warns U.S. against losing focus on Ukraine, Putin amid Israel-Hamas war
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Nation & World
With high stakes all-around, how will they rule?
Justices to hear Trump case that may affect election outcome at time when polls show trust in Supreme Court sagging
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Arts & Culture
Finding community through shared language
Students say University’s first-ever classes in Filipino brought deeper sense of culture — and in some cases, stronger ties to family, friends
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Arts & Culture
Love the clothes you have
‘Visible mending’ workshop takes aim at fast fashion’s disposable culture. Here, stitches and patches are things of beauty.
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Campus & Community
‘Not thrilled, not delighted, not even grateful’
Annette Bening gave as good as she got as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
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Health
Cancer keeps coming for the young. Why?
Harvard’s Kimmie Ng among gastrointestinal specialists hunting culprit behind global disease wave
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellows bring cutting-edge scientific innovation to the forefront
Four groundbreaking projects investigate brain development, capture raw data with AI, innovate quantum computers, and develop new models to map supernovas
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Health
How ‘Ozempic shaming’ illuminates complexities of treating weight problems
Obesity physician says it’s not simply lack of willpower, details research into destructive effects of stigma around body size
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Health
More than meets the eye
Mass. General photo contest celebrates art of science Annual awards call attention to the research underlying stunning scientific images.
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Science & Tech
Deep in the Amazon, SEAS team tracks a mobile element
Field work on the Rio Negro could help communities exposed to methylmercury protect their food web
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Campus & Community
Two new Corporation members
Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to join governing board
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Science & Tech
The miracle of ‘dog’
New findings illuminate complex neuroscience behind even the simplest words, with implications for treatment of speech, language disorders
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Campus & Community
Extra-special prize for Hasty’s Man of the Year
‘Saltburn’ star Barry Keoghan rolls with the punch lines
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Campus & Community
One of few dozen Black students on campus, he brought his camera everywhere
Former yearbook editor donates two bankers boxes of images of College life from his perspective in turbulent mid-’60s
