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Science & Tech
Using body heat to speed healing
To speeding up wound healing, researchers have developed active adhesive dressings based on heat-responsive hydrogels that are mechanically active, stretchy, tough, highly adhesive, and antimicrobial.
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Nation & World
Message in the dust
An unusual find during a Harvard Summer School program archaeological dig teaches students the fundamentals at one of Peru’s most important sites.
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Health
Want to quit smoking? There’s the e-cigarette
A new study provides critical population-level evidence demonstrating that using e-cigarettes daily helps U.S. smokers to quit smoking cigarettes.
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Arts & Culture
Out of many, one — band, that is
Members from the Harvard Summer Pops Band share how they became part of the band.
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Work & Economy
A social-networking website for student travelers
Harvard students Luke Heine and Raphael Rouvinov built a new student travel meet up program, Summer Playbook, to help college students connect with each other all over the world. The app has drawn seed money from Silicon Valley.
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Health
Growing support for plant-based diet
A new meta-analysis shows that people who follow predominantly plant-based diets with greater adherence have a 23 percent lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than those who follow these diets with lower adherence.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Embrace mindfulness
Professor of psychology Ellen Langer applies mindfulness to absolute truths.
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Campus & Community
Helping teachers learn
A preview of a Project Zero Classroom (July 22-26). Teachers from all over the country and the world come to Harvard Graduate School of Education to learn new practices to help students engage and learn at Project Zero Classroom.
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Science & Tech
A new spin on an old question
Understanding how DNA and proteins interact — or fail to — could help answer fundamental biological questions about human health and disease.
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Science & Tech
A way to make Mars habitable
Researchers from Harvard University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and the University of Edinburgh suggest that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with a material — silica aerogel — that would mimic Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse effect.
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Campus & Community
Interim faculty deans named for Winthrop House
Mark Gearan and Mary Herlihy-Gearan have been named interim faculty deans for Winthrop House.
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Campus & Community
Need a book for your beach bag?
Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.
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Campus & Community
’Tis the season for al fresco
A listing of about three dozen suggestions for al fresco dining and drinking around Harvard Square.
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Science & Tech
Harvard reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s moon walk
A trio of Harvard astronomers reflect on the impact of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, then and now.
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Science & Tech
Beneath the surface
New study debunks long-held theory that dolphins had ridged skin, which helped them swim faster.
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Campus & Community
The first moon walk
New mini-exhibits at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture feature lunar rocks from the Apollo 12 moon mission.
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Health
It takes a community to make compost
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum partners with local businesses on environmentally responsible composting program.
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Health
Treating runaway health costs
Study led by Harvard researchers finds that a long-term trial of a capped-payment system encouraged preventative care and discouraged unnecessary spending
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Science & Tech
Solving a statistical nightmare
Researchers have discovered why the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific appeared to warm twice as much as the global average, while the Northwest Pacific cooled over several decades.
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Work & Economy
How African American culture bred business success
A new book by Georgia professor and new Extension School grad student looks at how African American culture bred business success, and the lessons that this offers today.
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Campus & Community
Intensely personal, yet universal
A total of 160 classes comprise the College’s new program in General Education, which launches this fall.
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Health
Study finds high-risk pregnancies persist despite screening
A new study reports that although the number has decreased, women taking isotretinoin — an acne medication known to cause birth defects — have continued to get pregnant even after the implementation of special distribution restrictions.
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Campus & Community
Singing in the rain
Students from a first-year think tank led a successful effort to plant a pair of rain gardens on campus.
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Nation & World
Bacow sits down with lawmakers
Larry Bacow visited the nation’s capital this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss a range of University priorities, including the effects of federal immigration policy on faculty and students at Harvard and at universities across the nation. The visit comes on the heels of a letter Bacow sent to Secretary of State…
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Science & Tech
Are we alone in the universe?
Harvard astronomer Laura Kreidberg studies the atmospheres of extrasolar planets to search for signs of life.
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Health
Better screening for lung cancer
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have identified markers that can distinguish between major subtypes of lung cancer and accurately identify lung cancer stage. Their work could eventually help physicians decide whether lung cancer patients need standard treatment or more aggressive therapy.
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Campus & Community
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announces third class of mayors
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced the third class of 41 mayors from around the world who will participate in a yearlong education and professional development program.
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Health
Want to live past 100?
A two-day symposium organized by Professor of Medicine Steven Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School examined the scientific, nutritional, and health-related aspects of aging.
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Health
Study: Doctor burnout costs health care system $4.6 billion a year
Physician burnout is costing the U.S. health care system an estimated $4.6 billion annually, according to new research from an international team led by a Harvard Business School researcher.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Everyone should vote
Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, thinks about the major changes that would take place if every person in America voted.
