As lawmakers address the role of social media platforms in fueling the sort of extremism that led to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Digital Platforms and Democracy Project at HKS and NYU’s Stern School of Business have joined forces with other experts to make a series…

Just because a particular health care service is considered not cost effective doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be used, according to a recent article co-authored by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Ankur Pandya. In a March 10, 2021, article in JAMA Health Forum, Pandya, associate professor of health decision science, and his co-authors suggested…

Dell Marie Hamilton has been named a recipient of the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) recently announced. Hamilton is the image and publications rights coordinator at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She was among three artists to be recognized.  Marlon…

Combining healthy lifestyle habits, such as exercising, avoiding smoking, and eating healthy, can lead to positive changes in an individual’s cholesterol profile that are different but complementary to the effects of cholesterol-lowering medications, according to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Until now, no studies have compared the lipid-lowering effects of…

Workers around the world lack mechanisms to safely and confidentially advocate for change or voice concerns related to their work, safety, health and overall well-being. According to the World Health Organization, more than 50 percent of workers in many countries have no social protection and are subject to lax enforcement of occupational health and safety…

Silkroad, the nonprofit organization founded by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and home of the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble, has been awarded $3 million by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The largest gift in Silkroad’s 21-year history will support a four-year capacity-building effort to expand educational initiatives that are steeped in social justice and equity,…

Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., will be Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day Distinguished Speaker on Thursday, May 27, 2021, the School announced this week. The ceremony, which will be presented virtually on the same day as the broader Harvard University commencement and the conferring of HBS diplomas, will also…

Women who experienced high blood pressure during pregnancy had a higher risk of dying prematurely from heart disease, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by Jorge Chavarro, associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology, analyzed data on more than 88,000 women who participated in the…

Harvard Library, like all academic libraries in the U.S., typically takes its cataloging language cues from the Library of Congress. But it has now made one major exception — the phrase “illegal alien.” That subject heading disappeared permanently from Harvard’s collection descriptions in January, thanks to work by Change the Subject Task Force, a group…

On March 1, the Georgia House of Representatives passed H.B.531, a sweeping elections bill that critics and voting rights advocates were quick to note increases restrictions on absentee voting and curtails weekend early voting hours. Just two days later, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, legislation containing a broad range of democratic reforms, from…

Each year, the international NOMIS Foundation selects two notable academics as recipients of the NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award, and this year Harvard professor Catherine Dulac is one of the honorees. “This is terrific news, and more well-deserved recognition for the exciting and groundbreaking work that Catherine and her lab have been doing,” said Sean Eddy,  Ellmore…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni, each of whom partners with an HBS faculty member to bring their experience in business into the MBA program and the School. The fellows contribute to…

Researchers Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, and Eileen McNeely, of the Harvard Chan SHINE program, examine the roles that financial control and financial fragility play in well-being in a new paper published in the journal Social Indicators Research. Financial fragility is recognized as a substantial issue for individual well-being. Various estimates show that between 46 and…

Harvard Business School (HBS) and Odgers Berndtson, a world leader in recruiting and developing organizational leaders, today jointly announced a new collection for the school’s Baker Library, made up of interviews with the colleagues and family of former Genzyme Corporation Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President Henri A. Termeer, one of biotech’s early pioneers. The…

Harvard professor Pierre E. Jacob was awarded this year’s Guy Medal in Bronze by the Royal Statistical Society. The prize is presented by the Royal Statistical Society and is named after William Augustus Guy, the British medical statistician. The prize is awarded to honor excellent work presented to any conference or meeting run by the…

Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is proving as effective in real-world settings as it did in clinical testing, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) co-authored by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers. The study looked at data on more than 500,000 people who received the vaccine in…

Mental health and well-being appear to be connected to biological processes and behaviors that contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to an American Heart Association statement published in Circulation on Jan. 25, 2021. The statement, co-authored by Laura Kubzansky, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…

Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong with the Texas Power Grid?” To anyone not intimately concerned with the details of American electricity distribution, this may seem like an odd way of referring to the current electricity crisis in Texas. Isn’t there one national grid? Actually, there are three: the Eastern Interconnection, the…

Meena Venkataramanan ’21 is one of 24 U.S. citizens who make up the Gates Cambridge Scholars class of 2021. She will join the MPhil program in English Studies at the University of Cambridge in October, and plans to study contemporary refugee and asylum-seeker literature from the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Venkataramanan is a joint…

The clothing that firefighters wear to protect themselves from fire and other hazards may contain toxic compounds called perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In the study, led by Anna Young, a research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H.…

The Dan David Prize announced on Monday seven recipients of the award for 2021, including the Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor Emerita of the History of Science Katharine “Katy” Park. This year’s recipients also feature director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and fellow distinguished health and medical scholars…

A newly developed machine learning algorithm has uncovered information about how eating walnuts can lead to significantly lower risk of chronic diseases. The algorithm was able to analyze data from 1,833 participants of a multi-year nutrition study and identify 19 biomarkers associated with walnut consumption, according to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

Harvard is being recognized as one of the top Universities for commuters in the country. Harvard’s CommuterChoice program recently received a 2021 Best Workplace for Commuters award based on the level of commuter-benefits provided to our community members. Those benefits include Harvard’s 50 percent subsidy on transit passes, discounted memberships for Bluebikes bike sharing, carpool…

Researchers in the laboratory of Frederick Alt of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) at Children’s Hospital Boston made a groundbreaking discovery at the nexus of chromatin biology and immunology.  Their work, recently published in Nature, showed that physiological deregulation of the WAPL chromatin-maintenance factor allows developing B…

The challenges that the field of education has faced this year have been well-documented, from the swift and surprising shift to online learning in spring 2020 to the transition into a more robust and sustainable model of remote teaching and learning this fall and winter. In the realm of higher education, as in other areas,…

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson this week. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,355 and the number of international members to 298. Three members of the Harvard community were included in the most recent election: Doyle, Francis J.,…