The Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) has launched a new online review dedicated to advancing social impact work across sectors. Founded by a team of current and past ALI Fellows, the Harvard ALI Social Impact Review features original work from Harvard professors and fellows, along with leading thinkers and social impact leaders from business, government,…

Leslie Kirwan, dean for administration and finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for more than a decade, will retire this spring, Edgerley Family Dean Claudine Gay announced in a Tuesday message. “Anything but a technocrat, Leslie is a leader who lives her belief in the dignity of every person and who will…

Three scientists will receive the 2020 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize on Thursday, Oct. 1, for pioneering work in the field of metabolism. The researchers elucidated the role of gut hormones, their effects on metabolism and informed the design of treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and short bowel syndrome. The work of Holst, Habener and Drucker propelled the…

How a family functions and manages conflict during pregnancy may influence the development of cortical white matter and subcortical volumes in the fetus and could be associated with brain characteristics that underlie behavioral problems later in life, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study focused on data…

The Harvard Business School Action Plan for Racial Equity, an ambitious plan to advance racial equity both within and beyond the School, was announced today in a message from HBS Dean Nitin Nohria to the community.  “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism — and anti-Black…

Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today named 24 world-class researchers from six countries as Citation Laureates. These are researchers whose work is deemed to be ‘of Nobel class’, as demonstrated by analysis carried out by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Each year since 2002, ISI analysts have drawn on  Web…

Rates of vaccination for the human papillomavirus (HPV) are on the rise among children in the U.S., but still fall short of national goals, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study was published online Sept. 14, 2020 in the journal Pediatrics. Harvard Chan School co-authors included research…

As Boston area children head back to school under very different circumstances, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) continues to deliver critical services this fall to thousands of youth in the Greater Boston Area. Taking the lessons they learned from running 11 virtual summer camps, PBHA staff and volunteers are working with public schools and after-school…

The Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM) is the annual flagship event offering of Harvard’s Center for International Development. GEM is a thought-provoking, invitation-only conference that brings together the top business leaders, policymakers, and academics to engage around the most cutting-edge work in international development. GEM20 will be the 12th annual installment of an event that distinguishes…

Children diagnosed with malaria in nine sub-Saharan African countries often did not receive recommended care, and as many as 20 percent of children diagnosed with malaria in these countries received no antimalarial at all, according to new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. The…

A work requirement policy imposed by the state of Arkansas on Medicaid participants failed to achieve its stated goal of boosting employment, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Instead, the policy harmed health care coverage and access, the study found. Under Arkansas’ requirements, which were implemented in the…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Jorge Campos ’21 of Currier House and Reeda Iqbal ’21 of Quincy House this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars. Each year the Aloian Memorial Scholarship is given to two juniors who demonstrate thoughtful leadership and who improve the quality of life in Harvard Houses. The award…

A recent epidemiological study finds that the rate of COVID-19 for incarcerated individuals in Massachusetts is almost three times that of the state’s general population and five times that of the U.S. general population. The study also finds that higher rates of decarceration are linked to lower rates of COVID-19. The team analyzed publicly available anonymized…

Health experts should focus on messages to build public trust around a COVID-19 vaccine and tamp down the hype around the innovative and sophisticated technologies that are being leveraged to rapidly develop such a vaccine, according to a New England Journal of Medicine Perspective article co-authored by Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2020 HAA Awards: J. Jacques Carter, M.P.H. ’83, Martin J. “Marty” Grasso Jr. ’78, Cecily Orenstein Morse ’62, Yoshiko J. “June” Nagao ’96, Julie Gage Palmer ’84, and Kenneth A. Powell, M.B.A. ’74. Established in 1990, the HAA Awards are presented annually to recognize…

Harvard University announces a new gift from South Africa’s Motsepe Foundation, which will launch the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa to advance groundbreaking research on key issues impacting the continent. This gift will support faculty-led and student-driven science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research across Harvard’s Schools, exploring questions of crucial importance to…

At a time when the lives of children around the world are being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the new animated short film “My Hero is You” shows them they can be heroes by taking small actions to stay healthy and protect those they love. Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Stanford Medicine, and the University of…

In the latest paper from the Harvard Chan Sustainability and Health Initiative for Netpositive Enterprise (SHINE) program titled “Work, Gender, and Sexual Harassment on the Frontlines of Commercial Travel: A Cross-Sectional Study of Flight Crew Well-Being,” researchers examined the scale and scope of experience of sexual harassment at work among male and female flight attendants.…

The Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School today announced the appointment of six fellows who will join the Institute virtually this fall semester. The incoming fellows bring diverse experiences in public service and expertise on contemporary issues and challenges in modern civic and political life. “We are excited to welcome an extraordinary cohort…

For the first time in its history, the Harvard College Debating Union recently won the title of No. 1 Club of the Year becoming the top-ranked team in the nation, and breaking Yale’s 10-year winning streak. Aditya Dhar ’21 and Paloma O’Connor ’21 also won the Team of the Year, bringing the honor to Harvard…

John Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson was awarded the the honor of the Order of Merit (OM) this month. No more than two persons can be awarded the OM in any given year. According to its website, the OM “may be conferred upon any citizen of Jamaica or distinguished citizen of a country other…

In an effort to combat the discrimination that has intensified with COVID-19, educate children about the origin of the virus, and the precautionary measures necessary to stay safe, the Harvard Undergraduate UNICEF Club (HUNICEF) created an educational coloring book: “Ellie the Elephant.” By following Ellie’s day, children will learn about the origin of the virus,…

Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. In that time, Harvard University Press (HUP) has had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. Culled from the HUP’s publications in history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature, “Racism in America: A…

Harvard undergraduates may be learning remotely this fall, but they will have many opportunities to connect with community groups and schools in the Greater Boston area through the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship.  Engaged scholarship courses allow students to explore and cultivate community connections through language, film, data analysis, political activism, and community-inspired arts. Instructors…

New research from Harvard’s Growth Lab finds a direct link between a country’s incoming business travel and the growth of new and existing industries. The findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, support a Growth Lab hypothesis that moving knowhow is critical to economic growth, and business travel plays a key part in that…

The Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art would like to serve as a “living archive” of important ephemera surrounding this moment by collecting protest posters, circulated artist zines, informational pamphlets, and any other printed media/functional artwork that has been produced to respond to our current civil unrest and to facilitate social change. The…

Making Caring Common — a project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that supports young people’s moral and civic development — has launched a new, nonpartisan voter mobilization and civic education initiative for young voters from across the country. The initiative, called Get Out the Vote, aims to encourage young adults (ages 18–25) to…

The Growth Lab, which works with countries to identify obstacles to growth and propose targeted policy solutions to address them, has been conducting applied research in Albania for the past seven years. Since its work was first featured in the Harvard Gazette in 2014, the Growth Lab team has supported the Albanian government to attain a number of policy…

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced that Howard Gardner is the winner of the 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award for outstanding achievement and success in education research. The honor was announced July 23, as part of AERA’s slate of 2020 awards for excellence in education research. Gardner, the Hobbs Research…