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Campus & Community
Coursework, support, faculty worked for her
Extension School graduate credits A.L.M. degree with helping her landing a new job.
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Campus & Community
Drive behind pursuing concurrent degrees
Elorm Avakame chose to pursue a concurrent M.P.P./M.D. degree at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School because “in Medical School, we are all training to be doctors, but here at the Kennedy School, people are training for so many different walks of life.”
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Science & Tech
Soft multifunctional robots get really small
A team of researchers has created a soft, animal-inspired robot that can safely be deployed in difficult-to-access environments, such as in delicate surgical procedures in the human body.
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Health
Seeking a culprit behind rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults
Kimmie Ng, a Dana-Farber physician-researcher, answers questions on possible factors driving an increase in colon cancer among young adults.
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Arts & Culture
Horror’s human side
Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”
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Health
Pregnant women encouraged to eat cold-water fish
Pregnant women with the lowest plasma levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids — the kind found in fish oil — were at 10 times increased risk of early preterm birth as pregnant women with the highest levels.
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Arts & Culture
The deepest colors you’ll ever see
“I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Campus & Community
When is the price right?
Cuicui Chen, who received her Ph.D. in Public Policy, says her research underscores the importance of drawing upon accurate beliefs when making market-based decisions.
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Campus & Community
Growing up in Cleveland set Finch’s trajectory
Jay Finch attended a conference at the Harvard Kennedy School that brought undergraduate sophomores from diverse backgrounds to campus for a weekend introduction to graduate school in public service. The conference changed his path as a public servant.
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Health
Cystic fibrosis clues found in newly identified cell type
Researchers have found cells that appear to be the primary source of activity of the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, a serious, multiorgan disease.
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Health
‘Alzheimer’s in a dish’ model provides some answers
A Harvard research team has now produced a system that includes neuroinflammation, the key biological response that leads to the death of brain cells and later produces cognitive impairment, which can result in dementia.
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Campus & Community
Business School’s Anand named vice provost for advances in learning
Harvard Business School’s Bharat Anand will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol as vice provost for advances in learning.
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Campus & Community
Standing with Harvard in admissions case
Students, alumni, higher education leaders and others join amicus briefs supporting Harvard in the face of a lawsuit that alleges discrimination in admissions
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Campus & Community
Remembering — and rereading — Stanley Cavell
Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, who died in June at age 91, was remembered by former students and colleagues as an extraordinary writer and teacher.
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Campus & Community
Ziblatt receives Wilson Foundation Award
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has been chosen as the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, a top accolade in political science, for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.”
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Arts & Culture
Religious education through new eyes
A “life-changing” method of teaching religious studies learned at Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project is now helping high school students view world faiths with new eyes.
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Campus & Community
Poverty and past failures provide lessons in giving back
Wendell Adjetey, a postdoc fellow at the Weatherhead Center, is paying it forward with a foundation that helps the most marginalized peoples of the African Great Lakes region get an education.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s GSD selects architects for proposed expansion
The proposed expansion of Harvard Graduate School of Design will include new space to be integrated into the heart of the School’s existing structure.
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Science & Tech
Solving the problem of the calculus whiz
New Harvard research challenges conventional wisdom on what it takes to excel in calculus.
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Science & Tech
The scope of TESS
Harvard astronomer David Latham explains his role as science program director for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Campus & Community
Spirit of inquiry
Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.
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Campus & Community
Former Overseer, HBS alum C.D. Spangler dies at 86
Harvard Business School alumnus and former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseer C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, M.B.A. ’56, died July 22 at his home in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86 years old.
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Campus & Community
Praise for Gay as a scholar and a leader
Scholars and staff welcomed the appointment of Claudine Gay as the new Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Bulgarian-born computer science student finds her niche
Maria Zlatkova shares the challenges of coming to Harvard from Bulgaria and discovering an amazing support system in a group of computer science majors.
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Health
Death is universal, but sometimes murky
A Q&A with ethicist Robert Truog to mark the 50-year anniversary of a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on brain death.
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Science & Tech
Deep into the wild
Researchers used “deep learning” to identify images captured by motion-sensing cameras.
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Science & Tech
The Amazon as engine of diverse life
Researchers believe that many of the plants and animals that call Latin America home may have their roots in the Amazon region.
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Campus & Community
Claudine Gay named FAS dean
Claudine Gay will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow announced.
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Nation & World
President Bacow goes to Washington
During one of his first public events as the University’s 29th leader, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow signaled he will be a steadfast advocate for public service and higher education.
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Nation & World
Mayoral initiative heads for year two
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is housed at the Ash Center, is a collaboration among Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Now entering its second year, the program helps mayors govern more creatively and effectively.
