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Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike
The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.
Chan Zuckerberg Commits $500 Million to Harvard Neuroscience and AI Institute
A 15-year investment in biomedical and applied science research
Moderna’s Vaccine More Effective than Pfizer’s
A head-to-head comparison in 440,000 vaccinated veterans finds Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer’s at preventing a range of COVID-19 outcomes.
Celebrating the Classes of ’20 and ’21
The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
Harvard National Academy of Medicine Members
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
China’s Excess Wind Energy
Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
by Jacob Sweet
Bruno Carvalho
An urbanist’s lifelong study of the “rhythm of cities,” from Rio to Cambridge
Campus, Interrupted
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
The Mystery of Smell
COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.