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Science & Tech
New imaging technique may boost biology and neuroscience research
Dushan N. Wadduwage has detailed a new technique that would create high-quality, deep-tissue imaging of living subjects in a timely fashion.
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Science & Tech
Harvard-led physicists take big step in race to quantum computing
A Harvard-led team has created a 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator that represents the cutting edge in the world-wide quantum race.
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Health
Preventing UV-associated cancers by altering skin pigmentation
An enzyme called nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase plays a key role in the production of melanin.
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Campus & Community
Innovative higher-ed IT veteran named new CIO
Klara Jelinkova, who developed a reputation as an innovator in her nearly three decades in information technology at major U.S. research universities, has been named vice president and University chief information officer, Harvard announced today.
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Health
Why returning to ‘normal’ feels so not
A Harvard Chan School psychologist counseled awareness and flexibility as people return to work, school, or other pre-pandemic activities.
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Science & Tech
Harvard-led researchers document quantum melting of Wigner crystals
In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction that suggested how a metal that normally conducts electricity could turn into a nonconducting insulator when the density of electrons is reduced. Now a team of Harvard physicists has finally experimentally documented this transition.
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Arts & Culture
Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective
“Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and MIT-led nonprofit to tackle longstanding inequities in education
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced a joint effort with education technology company 2U to extend online learning’s reach and impact across the world.
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Science & Tech
Face mask can help diagnose COVID-19
A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute has found a way to embed synthetic biology reactions into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be customized to detect pathogens and toxins and alert the wearer.
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Science & Tech
New gene-editing technique shows promise against sickle cell disease
Scientists at Harvard and the Broad Institute have demonstrated that it is possible to treat sickle cell disease in mice using a new gene-editing technique.
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Campus & Community
Vice Provost Rick McCullough to become Florida State president
Vice Provost for Research Rick McCullough has been named president of Florida State University.
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Nation & World
Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border
Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.
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Health
Mapping the developing brain
Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing mouse brain, applying multiple advanced genomic technologies to the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for processing sensation from the body.
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Campus & Community
University Police Department unveils workload- and crime-data dashboard
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) today announced the launch of a public workload- and crime-data dashboard, an initiative that grew out of a recent wide-ranging examination of the department and aims to further increase transparency and accountability.
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Campus & Community
Giving back to the Greater Boston community
Students from Schools, centers, and programs across Harvard University volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to advance work being done by local government and community organizations across Greater Boston.
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Health
Eat the chocolate, lose the weight?
A new study finds postmenopausal women eating a concentrated amount of chocolate during a narrow window of time in the morning may help the body burn fat and decrease blood sugar levels.
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Science & Tech
Humanizing technology
Public Interest Technology Lab brings together experts from across Harvard to pursue technologies that serve the interests of the public.
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Nation & World
Intel agencies in an age of ‘nuclear’ cyberattacks, political assassinations
Former U.S. and Israeli intelligence heads, John Brennan and Tamir Pardo, told students that it will be up to them to beat back the threats posed by cyberwarfare and politically driven disinformation.
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Campus & Community
Driven to provide health care
After COVID hiatus, Harvard’s Family Van gears up again.
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Arts & Culture
Does climate doubt have a sound? At least one composer thinks so
Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.
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Arts & Culture
Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.
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Science & Tech
New wrinkle in tale of wolf-to-dog evolution
Study on the classic Russian farm-fox experiment raises questions about leading theories on the brains of domesticated animals.
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Campus & Community
Her daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack
In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.
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Nation & World
Best predictor of arrest rates? The ‘birth lottery of history’
Study: Social context of coming-of-age date matters more than socioeconomics.
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Campus & Community
RISE sets its sights on helping some of Cambridge’s neediest
Harvard and local philanthropic partners are helping fund the city of Cambridge’s new guaranteed-income pilot initiative to support community in need.
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Nation & World
‘We are going to soldier on’
After a lifetime of struggle against racism and years pushing for the Juneteenth holiday, Opal Lee’s wishes came true this week.
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Nation & World
‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts
In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.
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Campus & Community
Understanding the mayor’s office from the inside
Natalie Swartz has spent the past tumultuous year serving as the fifth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office.
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Nation & World
A diet that’s healthy for people, and the planet
At a virtual event, global experts examined obesity and malnutrition in the context of global warming, zoonotic disease, and other agriculture-related threats.
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Science & Tech
Electrodes that flow to fit the body
Scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created flexible, metal-free electrode arrays that conform to the body’s shapes.
