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Campus & Community
Enterprise Research Campus plan approved
The Boston Planning and Development Agency board has approved Harvard’s initial regulatory document for an Enterprise Research Campus, located near the new Allston home of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Science & Tech
Startup points toward minimally invasive heart repair
Harvard has established a licensing agreement with HoliStick Medical to allow commercial development of a specialized catheter device that can repair holes in the heart, or tissue defects in other organs, using deployable soft structures.
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Nation & World
Focus on Russia, inside and out
Simon Saradzhyan, founder of the Russia Matters project at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the upcoming election, in which President Vladimir Putin should coast to victory despite harsh criticism from abroad.
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Science & Tech
Butterfly wings inspire air-purification improvements
The Wyss Institute is developing a new type of coating for catalytic converters that, inspired by the nanoscale structure of a butterfly’s wing, can dramatically reduce the cost and improve the performance of air-purification technologies, making them more accessible.
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Campus & Community
Gina Raimondo elected chief marshal
Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo ’93 has been elected to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises.
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Health
Smelling sweetheart’s shirt may lower stress
Reducing stress might be as simple as sniffing a loved one’s T-shirt, according to new research from Harvard Business School.
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Science & Tech
Learning to find ‘quiet’ earthquakes
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Marine Denolle is one of several co-authors of a study that used computer-learning algorithms to identify small earthquakes buried in seismic noise.
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Campus & Community
Investing in creativity
At Harvard, the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund embraces creative problem-solving among staff members.
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Science & Tech
In plant tug-of-war, mom wins
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum researchers examining how the battle of the sexes is waged in plants have found a maternal path to victory.
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Campus & Community
Sunstein wins Holberg Prize
Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein has won the Holberg Prize, one of the largest international awards given to an outstanding researcher in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, law, or theology.
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Campus & Community
A history of games at Houghton
Explore the Harvard library’s treasure trove of games dating back to the 17th century.
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Health
What’s behind high U.S. health care costs
A Harvard study confirmed that the U.S. has substantially higher spending on health care, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries; but there’s more to it than that.
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Arts & Culture
Studying art by making it
Harvard class encourages students to create artworks to better understand how they’re made.
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Arts & Culture
In 1932, this opera was a hit. Why has no one seen it since?
A workshop at Radcliffe showcased “Tom-Tom,” an opera by African-American composer Shirley Graham that hasn’t been performed since its 1932 premiere.
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Campus & Community
Faust tells Philadelphia high school girls: ‘You can do anything’
Faust joined students at Philadelphia High School for Girls last week to discuss the importance of higher education and to urge the young women to pursue their dreams.
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Health
‘Switch’ that could improve memory identified
A neural circuit mechanism involved in preserving the specificity of memories has been identified by investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Regenerative Medicine and the Harvard Stem…
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Campus & Community
In Yard digs, there’s an app for that
Come next fall, a new app will allow viewers to probe archaeological finds from Harvard’s earliest days.
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Science & Tech
Public lands ‘a priceless legacy’ for future
Public lands owned and managed by the federal government are not a land grab, as some activists claim, but rather the result of a practice that goes back to the nation’s founding, a former Interior Department official says.
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Health
Vexing health problems can be solved, Gawande believes
Tackling complex issues such as opioid addiction, gun violence, and uneven access to medical care seems daunting, but surgeon and author Atul Gawande says history shows that over time, the nation can solve its public health challenges.
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Campus & Community
It’s Housing Day, with snowballs
As nor’easter slackens, Harvard freshmen throng the Yard after learning where they’ll live next, all part of the annual Housing Day.
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Science & Tech
Adhesives that can seal wounds
Wyss Institute researchers have developed a new super-strong hydrogel adhesive that can stick to dynamically moving tissues — such as a beating heart — even in the presence of blood.
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Health
A new model for an old killer
Failure rates in clinical trials have left a cure for sepsis virtually untouched for 30 years. A new model, however, may bring scientists closer to drug treatments.
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Campus & Community
Dench named dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, will become the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences beginning July 1. Dench will replace Xiao-Li Meng, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, who was in the post for five years and is stepping down to join the…
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Campus & Community
Hillary Clinton to receive Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the prestigious Radcliffe Medal on May 25 during Harvard’s Commencement week.
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Campus & Community
A call to halt endowment tax
Harvard President Drew Faust was among 49 college and university presidents who called on Congress to repeal the endowment tax enacted in December.
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Health
Race bias seen in breast-cancer screening
A new analysis urges guidelines that account for racial differences in development, aggressiveness of breast cancer.
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Campus & Community
Albert M. Henrichs, 74
Professor Henrichs was an accomplished papyrologist and produced seminal studies across the breadth of Greek literature and religion.
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Campus & Community
James Ackerman, 97
Professor Ackerman was the most widely read architectural historian in America for decades.
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Campus & Community
Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72
Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.
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Nation & World
A celebration of immigration
The DACA seminar, a series of events highlighting diverse facets of immigration, held “A Day of Hope & Resistance,” with workshops led by artists, poets, and musicians.
