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  • Reinventing courses that are harder to teach remotely

    How Harvard faculty are inventing ways to make “hard-to-teach” courses work online.

    Still from a lab experiment.
  • Testing for COVID, ensuring safety

    Harvard is testing those who return regularly to campus for COVID-19 at two locations, including Harvard Stadium in Allston. Here are photos of how it’s working.

    COVID-19 testing takes place in the open-air concourse of Harvard Stadium.
  • Something to smile about

    Harvard School of Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2024 doctor of dental medicine students during a Monday orientation.

    Zoom screen with dental students.
  • Going the distance for himself and a larger purpose

    Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter.

    Scott Edwards on bicycle entering Wyoming.
  • Gearing up for a consequential fall

    Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.

    Fall leaves.
  • Annette Gordon-Reed named University Professor

    Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

    Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Leading Harvard economist Emmanuel Farhi dies at 41

    Macroeconomist and Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who made important contributions to real-world fiscal policy, died unexpectedly on July 23 at 41 years old.

    Emmanuel Farhi.
  • Eating popcorn at home with Joanne Chang

    Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 makes sticky-bun popcorn for the Gazette in her own kitchen.

    Joanne Chang.
  • Improving emotional wellness for students

    Provost’s Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health details eight recommendations that address a mix of social, academic, and institutional issues.

    Widener Library steps.
  • 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

    Michael Ashley Stein, J.D. ’88, addressed what Harvard has done since then to expand accessibility on its campuses, and provided perspective on what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

    Carpenter Center ramp entrance.
  • Three students in 3 countries share in the ‘Postcards From Here’ series

    Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.

    Jaidyn Probst ’23 in field.
  • It’s back to the stacks

    100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.

    Stacks of books.
  • Same old labs but not

    Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”

    Researcher viewed through lab door posted with safety signs.
  • Investing in a sustainable future

    Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

    People walking in the forest.
  • A room of one’s own

    Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.

    Bunting fellows.
  • Recognition for some risky research

    The Star-Friedman Challenge is helping Harvard scientists during a time of great global uncertainty by boosting high-risk, high-impact research.

    Lab.
  • Another disappointment for MOOCs

    A new study looking at the efficacy of behavioral interventions for student involvement in online courses offers some suggestions on the road forward.

    Harvard EdX homepage.
  • Why they protest

    Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.

    Glenn Foster holds up a sign saying "I can't breathe" in front of the Capitol.
  • ‘I was in Harvard but not of it’

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.

    Jasmine Olivier, Shandra Jones, and Jeraul Mackey.
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall

    Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.

    Weeks Bridge to Harvard campus
  • The changing ecosystem of philanthropy

    Provost Alan Garber and Brian Lee, vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development, discuss the critical role of philanthropic support at Harvard and the principles behind Harvard’s gift policy.

    Harvard University gate leading to Science Center.
  • Serving up a new social order

    The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”

    Student waiters in Lowell House dining room. 1943
  • At the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club, ingenuity first

    Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.

    Mural by Chanel Thervil.
  • Class of 2024 yield drops marginally

    With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.

    Gate with ivy outside Standish Hall
  • In search of future Overseers

    A former Overseer and the executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association discuss the work of the HAA nominating committees.

    Philip Lovejoy and Tracy Palandjian.
  • Walsh details thinking behind redeployment of police funds

    Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.

    Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
  • Making connections, building community

    John West, M.B.A. ’95, says teamwork, bridging differences, and consensus-building have shaped his approach to life — and will remain guiding principles when he begins his term as president of…

    John West.
  • ‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’

    As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.

    Laurence Tribe.
  • From hands-on to virtual

    A group of local high school students worked on original astrophysics research projects through the Harvard-MIT Science Research Mentoring Program.

    Students at the CfA.
  • Breaking barriers

    Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.

    Deborah Brown at graduation.