Health Keeping kids safe in extreme heat Experts outline threats to childhood development, school challenges, play-time risks Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer August 12, 2025 4 min read With heat waves becoming more intense and frequent across the U.S., experts gathered for a Harvard webinar on how to protect children’s health amid soaring temperatures. “Extreme heat is really one of the most dangerous but also one of the least recognized threats to healthy development,” said Lindsey Burg...| Harvard Gazette
Jamie Fogel.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Work & Economy What your credit score says about how, where you were raised Study looks at national disparities, finds bill-paying habits emerge by early adulthood, influence upward mobility Christy DeSmith Harvard Staff Writer August 6, 2025 6 min read A person’s credit report tells a story about their childhood. New research, released last month by Harvard’s Opportunity Insights, shows that a strong predictor of an adult’s bill-payin...| Harvard Gazette
Nation & World ‘By mid-March, corpses littered the street like newspapers’ August 4, 2025 long read Young Ukrainian mother and her toddler left to fend for themselves after husband joins soldiers defending Mariupol Excerpted from “By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine” by Danielle Leavitt, Ph.D. ’23. By the end of February, Leonid had begun taking food and supplies to the Ukrainian soldiers at the front lines of Mariupol’s defense. He talked about th...| Harvard Gazette
