Tag: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Turning debris into haute couture
“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.
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Moving into Science and Engineering Complex after pandemic pause
After months of pandemic-related delay, labs and offices have begun to move from the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Cambridge campus into the newly completed Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Food for thought
Chef José Andrés discusses how food is connected to many other realms, from public health, to climate, to history, and even to moral philosophy.
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Letter opposes possible EPA shift
Almost 100 faculty and leaders from Harvard and its affiliated teaching hospitals are asking the EPA in a letter to withdraw its proposal to increase “transparency” in the science that underlies regulations, saying the rule would harm human health.
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Paul C. Martin dies at 85
Paul C. Martin, the prolific theoretical physicist who led Harvard Division of Applied Sciences for 20 years, has died at 85.
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‘An important piece of the pie’
Harvard’s Widener Library welcomed more than 500 staff members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for a fall celebration featuring conversation and pie.
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Big boost for SEAS
The Harvard community celebrates John A. Paulson’s $400 million gift to boost the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the University’s largest donation ever.
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Harvard receives its largest gift
John A. Paulson gives $400 million to Harvard to endow the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the largest donation in the University’s history.
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Accelerator Fund boosts Harvard tech startups
At Harvard, the Accelerator Fund boosts technologies in engineering and physical sciences, and helps launch companies in robotics, 3-D printing, and materials discovery.
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Hard hats aplenty
Harvard’s Schools are hammering out construction projects to meet modern educational needs.
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A new dean for SEAS
Francis J. Doyle III, a distinguished scholar in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been appointed the next dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will take the reins on Aug. 1.
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Not your average science fair
At the fourth annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair, hundreds of students representing 18 Harvard courses presented projects.
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Undergrads collecting degrees, heading abroad
Four graduating seniors will begin yearlong fellowships as part of the Fulbright Scholars program administered by the U.S. Department of State. Joy Ming, Tyreke White, and Amanda Reilly will all complete their studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year.
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Keys to a split-second slime attack
Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and from universities in Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil have been studying the secret power of the velvet worm.
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Case of the rotting mummies
Chilean preservationists have turned to a Harvard scientist with a record of solving mysteries around threatened cultural artifacts.
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An exchange in ideas and culture
Harvard and Brazilian students spent 10 days visiting sustainability-related sites around São Paulo as part of a field course sponsored by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the University of São Paulo.
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A trap for greenhouse gas
A team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power-plant emissions.
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Boston’s leaky pipes add to greenhouse-gas buildup
A Harvard-led study reveals that an aging natural-gas distribution system short-changes Boston-area customers and contributes to greenhouse-gas buildup. Depending on the season, natural gas leaking from the local distribution system accounts for 60 percent to 100 percent of the region’s emissions of methane.
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Crafting ultrathin color coatings
In Harvard’s high-tech cleanroom, applied physicists produce vivid optical effects — on paper.
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Where ideas trump devices
At the annual CS50 Fair, students of history, literature, music, and more create tools to share knowledge across fields.
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Creating ‘genomic origami’
Researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation, a kind of “genomic origami” that allows the same genome to produce different types of cells.
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Discovering ‘detectives’ of science
Howard Stone returned to Harvard to lead the annual holiday lecture at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with hundreds of family and community members in attendance.
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John Briscoe dies at 66
John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard University, died Nov. 12 at his home in Poolesville, Md. He was 66.
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Major boost for computer science
Steve Ballmer was joined by President Drew Faust and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Dean Cherry Murray at an iLab event to formally announce that the University will increase its computer science faculty by 50 percent over the next few years, to 36 from 24.
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Departing SEAS Dean Murray reflects
A Q&A with Cherry A. Murray, who will depart Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the end of December.
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Community spirit shines through
Despite gloomy skies and rain showers, hundreds of residents of Cambridge and Allston-Brighton watched Harvard beat Cornell 24-7 on Saturday (Oct. 12) as part of the annual Community Football Day.
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Build your own bot
A new resource provides both experienced and aspiring researchers with the intellectual raw materials needed to design, build, and operate robots made from soft, flexible materials.