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Inaugural BSA convocation fetes diversity, culture, inclusion
The Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) held its inaugural convocation for first-year students earlier this month. Freshmen, upperclassmen, and ...
Thousands of new microbial communities identified in human body
A new study of the human microbiome—the trillions of microbial organisms that live on and within our bodies—has analyzed thousands of new measurements of ...
Millions of disadvantaged adults may not be getting the statins they need
The most recent guidelines on statins recommended that millions more Americans take the cholesterol-lowering drug to prevent cardiovascular disease. But ...
Purchases under federal SNAP program show higher spending on less healthy foods
The SNAP program — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps — is a federal program designed to reduce food ...
Afro-Latin American Archaeology Workshop advances Afro-Latin American Studies
"The Afro-Latin American Archaeology Workshop: Enhancing a Creative Community for Anthropological Inquiry" took place on Sept. 15 and 16, 2017 at the ...
Call for Applications: Graduate Fellowships at I Tatti
Each fall and spring semester, two Graduate Fellowships are available for Harvard Ph.D. students. Applicants must be graduate students at Harvard ...
Maternal health internships give students hands-on experience
From assessing what motivates women in rural Zanzibar to give birth at a health facility rather than at home, to studying what fuels obesity rates among ...
Physical activity, whole grain consumption may lower colorectal cancer risk
Daily physical activity — including household chores and walking to work — may help lower colorectal cancer risk, according to a new study. Strong evidence ...
Faculty Council meeting — Sept. 13, 2017
On Sept. 13 the members of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences nominated a Parliamentarian for the fall term of 2017 and a ...
Surveying bicycling preferences in China
Wide cycle tracks that separate bicyclists from other traffic and bike parking facilities with security guards or cameras are among the factors that ...
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Memorial Church renovations achieve LEED Gold certification
The green renovation of the programming spaces in Harvard’s historic Memorial Church has achieved LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building ...
‘We All’ debuts in Allston
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces the opening of WE ALL, an inaugural design-build installation at the Grove in North Allston. WE ALL ...
Massachusetts report shows decline in opioid overdose deaths
A new Massachusetts Department of Public Health report showing a decline in the number of opioid overdose deaths for the first half of 2017 is encouraging ...
Portrait of former Harvard Chan School Acting Dean David Hunter unveiled
A crowd of faculty, staff, and students gathered at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Sept. 6, 2017 for the unveiling of a portrait of David ...
Recovery from Harvey could take years
Tropical storm Harvey has wreaked devastation on Houston, Texas since making landfall as a hurricane on Aug. 26, 2017. Richard Serino, distinguished ...
Lown Scholars form global network to fight cardiovascular disease
As Peruvian researcher Jaime Miranda described the administrative hassles and corruption standing in the way of better cardiovascular care in his ...
Harvard’s Hoekstra Lab wins National Green Labs Competition
With labs using an average of five times more energy than an office, shutting fume hood sashes and thoughtfully managing of equipment can yield measurable ...
HILT Annual Conference 2017
HILT Annual Conference 2017: Evaluating Teaching Wednesday, Sept. 20 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Wasserstein Hall Program Registration HILT's ...
Harvard Chan School student spotlight: Rachel Bishop, M.P.H.-H.S.B. 65
As a Rappaport Fellow, you were able to engage in public service as an intern with the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing at the Mass. State ...
Faculty Council meeting held Aug. 30
On Aug.30 the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2017–2018, and discussed the work of the ...
Cornel West’s ‘Prophetic Fightback’
In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Va., singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups ...
Most “Box Tops” food products do not meet school nutrition standards
Food marketing targeted at children is a billion dollar industry, often promoting foods and beverages that are calorie-dense and low in nutrients. Schools ...
Focus on spiritual health could benefit patients, doctors
Evidence suggests that patients’ health and quality of life could benefit if their doctors gave more attention to spiritual health — and this could even ...
Romance and Reality: Posters from the Russian Revolution
The Harvard Ed Portal, located at 224 Western Ave. in Allston, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies are proud to present the latest ...
Examining community health workers’ role in fighting HIV in Africa
Community health worker (CHW) programs can play a key role in providing HIV services in Africa. But such programs are often fragmented, poorly integrated ...
An innovative oasis in Longwood will relieve city stress
It’s deep summer in Boston. Oppressive humidity slows you down. Sidewalks radiate heat. Droning insects and city traffic hum. Just across the ...
Soldiers Field Park renovation achieves LEED Gold
Harvard University Housing residents moving in to Soldiers Field Park’s Building Four this year will be met with light, efficient, and healthier living ...
The Scarlet F: Why fat shaming harms health, and how we can change the conversation
The young woman strides down a city sidewalk gripping a textbook and folder. Maybe she’s worrying about missing class, but probably not about being ...
Harvard earns top spot on Sierra Club’s ‘Cool Schools’ ranking
Harvard earned a top spot in this year’s Sierra Club annual “Cool Schools” ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities, the ...
Outdoor light at night linked with increased breast cancer risk in women
Women who live in areas with higher levels of outdoor light at night may be at higher risk for breast cancer than those living in areas with lower levels, ...
The business of social change
The Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp sprawls on the southern outskirts of Beirut. Crumbling brick buildings are piled haphazardly upon one another. The narrow ...
Poll analysis finds failure of Senate ACA replacement bill related to huge divisions among Republicans and between parties
A new in-depth analysis of results from 27 national public opinion polls by 12 survey organizations finds that the failure of the recent U.S. Senate debate ...
Partisan right-wing websites shaped mainstream press coverage before 2016 election, Berkman Klein study finds
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage ...
VanderWeele, Lin honored for contributions to the field of statistics
Tyler VanderWeele and Xihong Lin, faculty members at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, have both received prestigious awards from the Committee of ...
Working, and riding, to end hunger
According to the Greater Boston Food Bank, 1 in 10 locals routinely don’t have enough to eat. In an effort to help address food inequality, Harvard began ...
Millions may face protein deficiency as a result of human-caused CO2 emissions
If CO2 levels continue to rise as projected, the populations of 18 countries may lose more than 5 percent of their dietary protein by 2050 due to a decline ...
‘Ghost Portraits’ honor African American and Native American public health notables
What might Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health look like if slavery and the oppression of Blacks and Native Americans had not occurred? That was the ...
Study identifies enzyme that protects cells from toxic fat
A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute sheds light on how a key fat-producing enzyme helps protect ...
Radcliffe awards more than $80,000 for American history research
Black feminism and the women’s liberation movement. Transgender archives. American women’s history in the high school classroom. These are a few of the ...
Call for Proposals: Mahindra Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The Mahindra Humanities Center welcomes all Harvard graduate students to submit proposals to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. ...
Learning to navigate salary negotiations
The Boston Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement recently teamed up with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to offer a free salary ...
Culinary Institute of America leads Asian cuisines boot camp at Harvard
Chef Shirley Cheng, a Professor of Culinary Arts at the Hyde Park, NY campus of the Culinary Institute of America, visited Harvard University Dining ...
HDS welcomes journalist and author E.J. Dionne for 2017–18 academic year
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is pleased to announce that E.J. Dionne, the distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed ...
New research suggests 3-D photography could offer better orthodontic diagnosis using less radiation
Common orthodontic problems such as crossbite, overbite, underbite, and crowding of the teeth can have a negative impact on a person’s physical appearance, ...
Forging connections at the 2017 Dataverse Community Meeting
Last week, more than 200 participants from around the world gathered to learn about, discuss, and improve Harvard’s own open-source research data ...
Advanced Leadership Initiative releases 2017 Education Deep Dive Report
The Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) released its 2017 Education Deep Dive Report: Empowerment in Education. The report summarizes ...
Call for applications to 2018 Australia-Harvard Fellowship
Australia-Harvard Fellowship is an initiative of the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation, a long-standing nationwide philanthropic organisation based in ...
Harvard launches Data Science master’s degree program
Harvard will offer a Master of Science (SM) degree in Data Science beginning in fall of 2018. The new degree, under the joint academic leadership of the ...
Music and Medicine
Music, painting, and storytelling came together at the Ed Portal during "At the Still Point: medicine from the inside," an event co-sponsored with the ...
8 HILT Spark Grants announced
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) awarded eight Spark Grants with support of up to 15,000 designed to help “spark” promising teaching ...
