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New Venture Competition: Students and alumni create groundbreaking solutions for world’s challenges
The New Ventures Competition is open to all students and alumni interested in launching new business and social impact ventures. The School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), host the…
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2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge finalists announced
Using AI for fatigue risk management amongst aviation and transportation workers, expanding visual arts education to grade school students across India, and inventing a new financial platform for supporting relatives…
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James Robins wins COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award
James Robins, the Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been recognized with the 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award and…
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Faculty Council meeting — March 26, 2025
On March 26 the Faculty Council met with President Alan Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the Faculty. They also heard a review of the Administrative Boards of…
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Fashion Show kicks off a week of cultural festivities
A beloved celebration for all, the weeklong 39th Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival opens Monday at Harvard Commons at the Smith Campus Center with the second annual Cultural Fashion Show and…
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Cities mobilize across sectors to tackle tough challenges
Some of cities’ most complex challenges — like chronic flooding in Charleston, South Carolina; derelict, unsafe housing in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Winnipeg, Canada; and youth at risk in Rosario, Argentina…
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2024 Harvard LEAD Fellows begin on-campus programming
The Harvard Global Health Institute welcomed the 2024 Harvard LEAD Fellows to campus this week. The three fellows, Cindy Chan Tha, Wanza Mbole, and Jalikatu Mustapha, will begin their in-person programming at Harvard University.
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Visiting scholars program to strengthen international collaboration in global health
The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Research Scholars. This newly launched program provides Harvard faculty with an opportunity to strengthen collaboration with international researchers in…
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Analysis of cross-state cancer care signals need for improved telehealth
A new paper, published in JAMA Network Open, finds a surprising number of Americans traveling out-of-state for cancer care. The study, co-authored by Center for Geographic Analysis research associate Lingbo Liu, focuses on older…
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Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship hosts 2nd annual Demo Day
The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative recently hosted the second annual Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting a wide variety of student ventures…
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Faculty Council meeting — March 12, 2025
On March 12 the Faculty Council heard presentations on generative AI and on FAS fundraising. They also heard reviews of the Ph.D. program in Population Health Sciences and of the…
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West End hit musical comedy to conclude A.R.T.’s 2024/25 season
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced on Thursday that it will produce the North American premiere of the West End hit “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” to conclude…
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Paula Hammond delivers inaugural Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond,…
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Paola Arlotta receives 2025 ISSCR Momentum Award
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Paola Arlotta, with this year’s Momentum Award. Arlotta is the Golub Family Professor of the Department of Stem Cell and…
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Escobari joins HMC Board of Directors
Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Martín Escobari ’94, MBA ’98, has been elected to join its board of directors.
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Victor Seow honored for early-career excellence in history of science
Victor Seow, Ph.D. ’14, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has received the Sarton Prize for the History of Science. The award, established by the American Academy of…
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Harvard Business School announces spring cohort of Executive Fellows
“HBS launched the Executive Fellows program in 2020 to provide an avenue by which experienced business leaders and practitioners can contribute to the School’s mission in a variety of meaningful ways,” said Professor Len Schlesinger, chair of the program.
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Unveiling the mystical: How scholars are advancing psychedelics study
The term “psychedelics” can conjure surreal images of mind-altering journeys through a mystical realm that connects the body to the soul and the soul to divinity. Dreamlike visions can pave…
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Call for proposals: Harvard Global Health Institute Scholarly Working Groups
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced it is now accepting new proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health from faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals. The program aims to create a collaborative environment to promote inter-faculty gatherings where faculty can explore or accelerate research areas in topics critical to the advancement of…
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Harvard Choruses to perform new opera ‘American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson’
The Harvard Choruses will perform a world premiere of “American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson” Saturday, an opera that tells the story of Puritan midwife and theologian Anne Hutchinson.…
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‘Seeing Each Other’ exhibition on display at Cabot House
In celebration of Women’s Week, a new exhibition will feature eight portraits from alumni Stephen Coit ’71 and Robert Shetterly ’69. “Seeing Each Other: A Conversation Between the Harvard Foundation…
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Roxane Gay speaks at annual Peggy Schmertzler Leadership Seminar
Roxane Gay doesn’t get tired of engaging with readers on a variety of topics, but she’s ready to stop defining feminism. The author and social commentator opened up about her…
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Faculty Council meeting — Feb. 26, 2025
On Feb. 26 the Faculty Council approved the preliminary “Courses of Instruction” for 2025–26 and a proposal regarding the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration. They also heard presentations…
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Davóne Tines ’09 to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Davóne Tines ’09, acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, will be the recipient of the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard University President Alan Garber at a spring ceremony in…
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Ph.D. students awarded more than $130,000 in Social Equity and Health Equity stipend funding
Professor Marcella Alsan and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy have awarded 28 students up to $5,000 each.
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ChemFORWARD wins Harvard’s Roy Award for Environmental Partnership
The Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announced on Monday that ChemFORWARD is the 2024 winner of the Roy Family…
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Kempner Institute welcomes spring undergrad student researchers
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the spring 2025 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE). KURE awards…
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Annual symposium addresses pressing global health issues
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University April 10-11. Centered on the theme “Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity,” the symposium…
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Exploring art and scholarship through a new lens at Center for the Study of World Religions
On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by…
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Heather Boushey and Todd Tucker join Malcolm Wiener Center and the Reimagining the Economy Project as senior research fellows
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center and Reimagining the Economy Project welcome Dr. Heather Boushey and Dr. Todd Tucker.