Four sculptures have been installed on Harvard Business School’s (HBS) campus in Boston as part of its ongoing contemporary sculpture program, which began in April 2016. A sculpture by Yinka Shonibare is a new addition to the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, a sculpture by Melvin Edwards, and two works by Thaddeus Mosley are on…

John Ruggie, the Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and the architect of an authoritative global standard on business and human rights, passed away on Sept. 16. He was 76. A political scientist, Ruggie’s academic work in the field of international relations focused on the impact of…

Military service members, now part of the HKS community, reflect on what the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan means to them. In an emotional program, the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP) gave the stage to U.S. military personnel who served in Afghanistan and are members of the…

Mather House faculty deans, house administrator, facilities staff, wellness tutors, and Harvard’s mindfulness coordinator recently announced the official opening of the Wellness Corner. Over the summer, the Mather House team renovated and redesigned two adjacent rooms in the House that now constitute the new space. It includes a tranquility room and an aerobics room equipped with…

The Harvard Art Museums have announced a new public safety policy, to go into effect Sept. 28, in a commitment to keep the museums safe for all visitors and staff. The policy requires all visitors to provide proof of vaccination or documentation of a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to all museums facilities. It applies…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2021 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. ’59), a former director of the Foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS,…

The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) recently reported major wins in the courts for the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. The first win came from Kadel v. North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers & State Employees, a lawsuit brought by a small group of transgender…

The Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) is pleased to welcome more than 40 Visiting Scholars and Visiting Fellows this fall. Affiliates will spend the 2021-22 academic year in residence at HYI. Established in 1928, the Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to…

In 2019, astronomers spotted something incredible in our backyard: a rogue comet from another star system. Named Borisov, the icy snowball traveled 110,000 miles per hour and marked the first and only interstellar comet ever detected by humans. But what if these interstellar visitors — comets, meteors, asteroids and other debris from beyond our solar…

In a recent webinar presented by the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Matthew Baum, the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, and a team of principal investigators with the COVID States Project explained the results of their latest report. A series of 19 surveys conducted from April 2020 to July…

The Venice Architecture Biennale has returned with its 17th installation, “How Will We Live Together?”, featuring 114 participants representing 46 countries and a variety of perspectives on the titular question from curator Hashim Sarkis — a prompt that he had established before the various events that marked 2020. This year’s show commenced with an inaugural…

To achieve the World Health Organization’s goal of helping provide “the highest attainable standard of health” for individuals, it’s time to rethink the divisions between public health and clinical medicine, especially preventive medicine, according to an Aug. 5, 2021, Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) The article, authored by David Hunter,…

The COVID-19 pandemic increased negative emotions across the world. People reported poor mental health and behavior problems including sleeping less, consuming more drugs and alcohol, struggling to concentrate, and fighting more with loved ones. Over the past year, researchers from scores of countries joined together to study whether interventions to mitigate negative emotions and increase…

Knowing the current and previous smoking habits of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) could allow clinicians to make better informed treatment decisions, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study looked at data from 644 NSCLC patients, including 375 who were former smokers, 164 who…

Professor Cornell William Brooks leads the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, which he calls a think-and-do tank for Harvard students committed to social justice advocacy and rigorous applied research. Named for an early-20th-century civil rights pioneer, African American newspaper editor, and distinguished Harvard graduate, the Trotter Collaborative runs a…

Appearing before a special House panel this week, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Professor Jason Furman called the growing economic divide, fueled by the pandemic, “the fundamental challenge our economy, and perhaps our society, faces.” Furman, the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at HKS and the department of Economics at Harvard University,…

Sociology and Social Studies Assistant Professor Christina Ciocca Eller will join the Biden Administration as the assistant director of evidence and policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She will also serve as senior advisor for social and behavioral science at the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). “I just…

How does a first-year medical student learn to distinguish between two likely causes of a patient’s shortness of breath? By using a method similar to one birders use, believes Rose Goldman, Harvard Medical School associate professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. “Finding those differentiating features to get to a medical diagnosis is similar to looking at…

From an airplane or satellite, Picher, Oklahoma, appears as an anomaly in the endless green grid of agricultural land at the center of the United States. Huge irregular gray blots and dark pools interrupt the geometric precision of roads, and the colorful smear of Tar Creek runs diagonally through the town. Abandoned a decade ago…

Harvard Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) Loeb Fellowship is pleased to announce its Class of 2022, a cohort of 10 innovators who work across fields that engage with the built environment and social outcomes. In addition to marking the program’s 51st class of fellows, the Loeb Fellowship’s 2021-2022 cycle will inaugurate a collaborative fellowship between…

Harvard University researchers will take leading roles in a new National Science Foundation (NSF) artificial intelligence research institute housed at the University of Washington (UW). The UW-led AI Institute for Dynamic Systems is among 11 new AI research institutes announced today by the NSF.  Na Li, the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied…

A team of researchers have discovered a “layer Hall effect” in a 2D topological Axion antiferromagnet. The work, published in the journal Nature, is believed to be the first experimental evidence of this type of quantum state and can one day help generate a magneto-electric effect that can lead to the next-generation of electronic devices, sensors,…

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera will join Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) as a senior lecturer in media and performance. Her tenure begins August 1, and she will be on campus to teach this fall. “Tania Bruguera is an artist whose work brilliantly engages the sociopolitical conditions of our time. We are thrilled to welcome her…

Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages may raise the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study examined data from 96,000 participants in the Nurses’ Health Study II and found that women who consumed more than two sugar-sweetened beverages a day had more than double the…

“How can we help you?” Andrew Bentley, M.P.A. ’20 had no idea how powerful this simple request would be. Bentley said it started with the need to do something during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. A resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bentley had met neighboring St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter in 2019…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced that it plans to make its facilities and operations net-zero of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the current fiscal year (which began on July 1, 2021), a first among higher education endowments. This effort builds off of the University’s emissions reductions plans for its campus that began in 2006 and…

In Japan, more COVID-19 cases and deaths have occurred in prefectures with lower household incomes and a higher unemployment rate, among other socioeconomic factors, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Yuki Yoshikawa and Ichiro Kawachi. Their study, published in JAMA Network Open on July 14, 2021, was the first to investigate the association between…

The Harvard Art Museums have announced plans to reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. Advance reservations will be required for visitors and will be available up to three weeks in advance. Reservations can be made on the museum website beginning August 20. A limited number of tickets may also be available each…