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Building a Better COVID-19 Swab

Engineers at the Wyss Institute address a critical shortage of nasal swabs.

by Jonathan Shaw

Starlink

Seniors hunker down in communal quarantine.

by Eve Driver

Harvard fall reopening plans

Provost Alan Garber outlines the possibilities and options—and the College prepares for continued remote teaching, if necessary

by John S. Rosenberg

Alone on Harvard’s Campus

Most days, I see no one at all.

by Jeremy Tsai

William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine

The periodontology expert will assume his new role September 1. 

At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis

Highlights from our wide-ranging coverage of the environment

Harvard’s Endowment to Go “Greenhouse-Gas Neutral” by 2050

The announcement is not the same as fossil-fuel divestment, though it comes amid months of intensified activism calling for divestment. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History

From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history

Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom

“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20. 

by Julie Chung

A poem by Rafael Campo

A poem by Rafael Campo, prompted by the coronavirus pandemic

Poet and physician Rafael Campo on connection and empathy in caregiving during t

Poet and physician Rafael Campo on connection and empathy in caregiving during the pandemic’s isolation

by Lydialyle Gibson

Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical questions

Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical and social questions in an online Harvard discussion with Michael Sandel

by Lydialyle Gibson