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Harvard symposium honors William Julius Wilson’s five decades of work toward racial justice
Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson.
Online Music Lab studies questions of melody and humanity
Samuel Mehr has long been interested in questions of what music is, how music works, and why music exists. To help find the answers, he’s created the Music Lab, an online, citizen-science project aimed at understanding not just how the human mind...
Sizing up a planet’s habitability
Researchers have redefined the lower size limit for planets to maintain surface liquid water for long periods of time, extending the so-called habitable zone for small, low-gravity planets.
Harvard students find Gen Ed courses during shopping week
Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that ...
Harvard researchers battle the extreme at the South Pole
Harvard researchers describe life in the South Pole.
Students reflect on gratitude at Harvard’s White Coat Ceremony
Incoming Harvard medical and dental students talk about the people who helped them most.
How they wrote (and rewrote) their Harvard admissions essays
Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Harvard first-years reflect on the agony and the ecstasy of writing their admissions essay.
In her new memoir, Samantha Power recalls the guilt and angst of her decision to leave reporting on the Balkans to attend HLS
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
PTSD linked to increased risk of ovarian cancer
A new study finds that women who have greater numbers of PTSD symptoms are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.
New technique being developed to therapeutically repair and replace human organs
A new technique called SWIFT (sacrificial writing into functional tissue) ultimately may be used therapeutically to repair and replace human organs with lab-grown versions containing patients’ own cells.
Study shows that students learn more when taking part in classrooms that employ active-learning strategies
A new Harvard study shows that, though students felt like they learned more from traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in active-learning classrooms.
Harvard president offers advice to combat intolerance at first Morning Prayers of the fall term
Universities should be centers for open debate and discussion, where different opinions and perspectives are welcomed, Harvard President Larry Bacow said during the first Morning Prayers of the fall term.
Harvard researcher finds canine brains vary based on breed
Erin Hecht, who joined the faculty in January, has published her first paper on our canine comrades in the Journal of Neuroscience, finding that different breeds have different brain organizations owing to human cultivation of specific traits.
Solution to pancreatic cancer puzzle is discovered
New research has found that pancreatic cancer actively destroys nearby blood vessels and replaces them with cancerous cells, blocking chemotherapy from reaching tumors. This insight could lead to new treatments that act by preventing cancer’s...
Harvard biologist discusses the environmental impact of the Amazon fires
Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.