Today, mindfulness mediation can be found everywhere from schools to prisons to sports teams. The trendy fitness apparel company Lululemon is now advertising mindful clothing for men. There’s also Mindful…

Harvard University President’s Administrative Innovation Fund awards grant to support the expansion of the Harvard Votes Challenge, a nonpartisan, University-wide effort to encourage voter participation led by the Institute of Politics and the Ash…

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) today announced the appointment of its newest cohort of Technology and Democracy Fellows — seven emerging leaders…

Harvard, Merck to collaborate on research led by Harvard immunologist Arlene Sharpe, seeking to identify new pathways for the treatment of cancer Harvard University and Merck are launching a collaboration…

Tina Liu, M.B.A., has been honored as a Gold Winner of the Women World Awards in the category of Female Executive of the Year for her contributions to developing a novel…

Professor of History of Art and Architecture Jinah Kim and colleagues from the College of the Holy Cross and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery have received a $100,000…

Children born with HIV in the U.S. were less likely to adhere to their medications as they aged from preadolescence to adolescence and into young adulthood, according to a new study led…

From July 9 to July 11, 2019, the second Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Ministry of Energy…

Jointly founded by the Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign), the Forum for Youth Investment, and the Children’s Funding Project, the Local Children’s Cabinet Network (LCCN) will convene for its first summit…

This week, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED or the Harvard Project) announced it is joining the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Harvard Project…

About 30 percent of children carry a gene variant that may make them more susceptible to prenatal exposure to methylmercury, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan…

In Botswana, an intervention in 15 communities to test for and treat HIV infection in all adult residents was effective in increasing population viral suppression to very high levels (meaning that…

Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump announced that Conor Walsh, Wyss Core Faculty member, and Jessica Whited, faculty member in Harvard’s department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, are…

During the fifth annual Dataverse Community Meeting from June 19 to 21, more than 180 participants, representing over 70 universities and research organizations from around the world, gathered in Harvard’s…

A new study published in the Journal of Environmental Health found that around 65 percent of active natural gas storage (UGS) wells in the United States are located in suburban…

An international team from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition Ashkelon announced this week in Science Advances the findings of a…

Harvard, a host institution of the esteemed Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), welcomes back the national nonprofit. WSP hosts immersive academic boot camps at no cost to enlisted veterans at some of…

Recent research has shown that rice grown under carbon dioxide levels that could be reached as soon as 2050 could lose 17 to 30 percent of its B vitamin content.…

On July 2, the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) announced the launch of the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). The new multimedia platform will feature leading global thinkers in the burgeoning multi-disciplinary field…

Around half of eligible voters in the U.S. cast a ballot during the 2018 midterm elections. In the same year, 80 percent of the approximately 3,500 Blue Cross Blue Shield of…

Irene Pepperberg, a research associate and lecturer in the Psychology Department, has received the 2020 Comparative Cognition Society Research Award, granted unanimously by the board of the Comparative Cognition Society…

In western Europe’s turbulent sixth century A.D., when the western Roman Empire had fallen to newcomers from the north, and most scholars view western state structures as undergoing serious disarray,…

Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation released a study on June 26, titled, “Civic Responsibility: The Power of Companies to Increase Voter Turnout.​” Study coauthors Sofia Gross…

For cells, effectively managing stress can be the difference between life and death. But why some cells master the art of stress management while others succumb to the pressure isn’t…

The Harvard Art Museums have received a $1 million gift from George Ho, A.B. ’90, Henry Ho, A.B. ’95, and Rosalind “Sasa” Wang to establish the Ho Family Student Guide…

Australia-Harvard Fellowships are offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia. These fellowships are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard…

Harvard Business School (HBS) and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced this week a new joint master’s degree program that aims to prepare future leaders at the interface…

A worldwide effort to lower people’s blood pressure, cut their sodium intake, and eliminate trans fat from their diet could dramatically reduce the incidence of premature death from cardiovascular disease…

Men who have high amounts of fat in their abdomens and thighs may have greater risk of developing advanced and fatal prostate cancer than those with less fat in those…