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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.
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
Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical questions
Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical and social questions in an online Harvard discussion with Michael Sandel
At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
Our best stories going deep into the ideas and personalities that will shape the medical care of tomorrow
Zoom and the zero commute
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
Harvard Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
Dean Gay outlines near-term actions—and “the definition of a hard problem” facing the FAS.
Harvard Schools Pandemic Pressures
Deans articulate their diverse faculties’ divergent priorities (and problems)—plus an MIT perspective