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Science & Tech
It was California or bust
A group of Harvard and MIT students has pedaled its way to the Pacific Ocean from Washington, D.C., with stops along the way to lead science “learning festivals” to promote STEM learning among children.
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Campus & Community
Murray nominated to senior role at Department of Energy
Cherry A. Murray, former dean of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was nominated by President Obama to be director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy, a key administration post.
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Campus & Community
Science to chew on
Local children learn the scientific principles behind cooking food.
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Health
How new biosensors turn E. coli into something valuable
New biosensors developed by Wyss Institute core faculty member George Church enable complex genetic reprogramming of common bacteria like E. coli and could be leveraged for sustainable biomanufacturing, using the metabolic processes of bacterial cells to generate valuable chemicals and fuels.
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Health
Potential treatment for muscular dystrophy
Harvard researchers report that by identifying and mimicking important developmental cues, they have been able to drive cells to grow into muscle fibers capable of contracting in a dish and multiplying in large numbers. This new method of producing muscle cells could offer a better model for studying muscle diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, and…
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Health
New hope in old viruses
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina.
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Science & Tech
Robotic insect mimics nature’s extreme moves
A team of researchers from Harvard and Seoul National University has unveiled a novel robotic insect that can jump off the surface of water. In doing so, they have revealed new insights into the natural mechanics that allow water striders to jump from rigid ground or fluid water with the same amount of power and…
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Arts & Culture
Uncovering what Thoreau uncovered
Harvard’s Houghton Library has acquired Henry David Thoreau’s notes from the scene of the shipwreck that killed social reformer and writer Margaret Fuller.
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Arts & Culture
Writing her way back
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is returning to her musical-theater roots as the composer of “Waitress,” which opens at the American Repertory Theater this weekend.
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Health
Inadequate hydration can lead to impaired cognitive, emotional function
Drinking enough water is essential for physiological processes such as circulation, metabolism, temperature regulation, and waste removal. More than half of all children and adolescents in the United States are under-hydrated — probably because they’re not drinking enough water, according to the first national study of its kind from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
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Arts & Culture
A Harvard homecoming for this artist
Jesse Aron Green ’02 is the first Harvard alumnus to have an exhibition at the new Harvard Art Museums. A former Quincy House resident and a Needham native, Green spoke with the Art Museums about his Harvard education and the inspiration for his work.
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Health
Expanding the brain
New findings reveal how genomic imprinting can dramatically expand biological diversity, and could have important implications for understanding the brain.
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Science & Tech
A shift in motherhood
New findings draw from evolution to explain why human mothers seek help with raising their children.
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Health
Hard-won lizards
Research on the evolutionary history of the anole lizard became an international adventure for Professor Jonathan Losos.
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Health
Recurrent ovarian cancer patients may have hope
Harvard researchers have found a gene therapy that delivers a protein that suppresses the development of female reproductive organs. This new treatment could improve the survival of patients with ovarian cancer that has recurred after chemotherapy. Recurrence happens 70 percent of the time and is invariably fatal.
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Science & Tech
Go ahead, be sarcastic
Despite sarcasm’s nasty reputation, new research finds that it can boost creativity and problem-solving in the workplace.
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Science & Tech
Pesticide found in 70 percent of Massachusetts’ honey samples
In a new study, Harvard researchers looked at pollen and honey samples collected from the same set of hives across Massachusetts. Findings show they contain at least one pesticide implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder.
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Health
Zebrafish reveal drugs that may improve bone marrow transplant
Using large-scale zebrafish drug-screening models, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have identified a potent group of chemicals that helps bone marrow transplants engraft, or “take.”
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Science & Tech
Quality and quantity of key crops changing
Changing environmental conditions around the globe caused by human activity could negatively impact the health of millions of people by altering the amount and quality of key crops, according to two new studies from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
It’s all about that bass
Local students learn how the body talks to the brain — by making bugs dance — at the Harvard Ed Portal.
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Campus & Community
James Rothenberg dies at 69
James F. Rothenberg, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2004 and the University’s treasurer from 2004 to 2014, died unexpectedly Tuesday. He was 69.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing far nearer
Summer Summits: Notes from further afield, a new initiative at the Carpenter Center, is bringing voices in contemporary art to Harvard for a live travelogue of stories, relics, musings, and photographs from escapades near and far.
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Science & Tech
More eyes on climate change
Season Spotter is a citizen-science project that aims to recruit Internet users to assist researchers analyzing images of natural scenes.
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Science & Tech
Tiny wires, great potential
Harvard scientists have developed a method for creating a class of nanowires that could one day see applications in everything from consumer electronics to solar panels.
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Health
Keeping adults in the game
In response to a recent poll that found most adults who played sports when they were younger stopped doing so as they aged, a panel of experts convened at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health explored how to keep adults in the game.
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Arts & Culture
Sensitive art
Christina Leigh Geros’ creation for Radcliffe’s Wallach Garden is brilliantly responsive to its surroundings.
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Campus & Community
David Grattan Hughes, 88
David Hughes, Harvard’s Fanny Peabody Mason Professor of Music Emeritus, died in Paris on April 20; he was 88.
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Campus & Community
James Lawrence Medoff
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 7, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Lawrence Medoff, Meyer Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry, was spread upon the records. Professor Medoff was an influential labor economist whose distinctive methods and broad interests expanded the vision…
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Campus & Community
Calvert Ward Watkins
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 4, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Calvert Ward Watkins, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. A larger-than-life Indo-Europeanist, Professor Watkins’s scholarship, including contributions to the American Heritage Dictionary,…