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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard National Academy of Medicine Members

Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Can Slime Molds Think?

A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.

by Nancy Walecki

Optimizing Public-School Spending

Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools

by Erin O’Donnell

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 

by Nancy Walecki

Campus, Interrupted

The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart. 

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella

The Mystery of Smell

COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal