Harvard’s Growth Lab today launched Country Profiles, a unique data visualization tool that guides users on an interactive journey through a country’s economic structure and dynamic growth patterns ultimately revealing the strategy necessary to achieve greater prosperity. This first-of-its-kind platform — built into the Atlas of Economic Complexity — revolutionizes how to think about economic strategy,…

The Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH),  a new university-wide effort launching this fall, will bring together Harvard students, researchers, and policy leaders to advance innovative research about immigration. Led by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Roberto Gonzales, a leading expert on the experiences of immigrant youth, the central mission of IIH is to build…

A higher percentage of nanoparticles pass from the lungs to the blood in immature rats than in adult rats, according to a new study led by researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is the first known experimental demonstration of leakier lung tissues allowing more…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Michelle Walsh ’20 of Cabot House and Benjamin Roy ’20 of Kirkland House this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars. Each year the Aloian Memorial Scholarship is given to two juniors who demonstrate thoughtful leadership and who improve the quality of life in Harvard Houses. The award…

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On Sept. 28, Harvard University Dining Services is once again hosting an all-day, free festival, inviting the Greater Boston community to join in a fun-filled and inspiring day of cooking, demonstrations, hands-on skills and tastings, innovations and explorations. Centered around the theme “Saving the Planet One Bite at a Time!” the festival highlights Harvard faculty…

Applications are being accepted now for the 2019-20 Climate Change Solutions Fund grants cycle, with a deadline of Oct. 21, 2019. Eligible faculty and students are invited to submit proposals for funding up to $150,000 for projects of one or two years in duration. Applications are accepted through the Harvard University Funding Portal (HUFP). The…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Apple, and the National Institutes of Health announced this week a collaboration for the Apple Women’s Health Study, a large-scale longitudinal study led by a team of researchers at the Harvard Chan School that will leverage participants’ voluntary use of a smartphone research app to advance our understanding…

Harvard has announced  the nine projects that were awarded funding in the fourth year of the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund Challenge. The Fund was created to foster a culture of innovation and to catalyze administrative innovation and collaboration across Harvard by investing in staff-generated, creative solutions that recognize staff expertise, and advance administrative excellence. The…

Australia-Harvard Fellowships are seeking applications through Sept. 10, 2019. The fellowships are offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia and are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard who have a persuasive plan for collaborative work in Australia with the country’s  best bioscience researchers and educators.…

Today, the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Education Redesign Lab and The Children’s Funding Project released their new collaborative report Innovative Financing to Expand Programming and Services So Children Can Thrive Final. The report highlights 10 innovative methods to finance children’s services, giving communities a roadmap to ensuring their youth programming is expansive, effective, and…

Seventeen students representing nine schools across Harvard convened with one common goal: to combine their diverse expertise to tackle the biggest issues in tech today.  The students, from both undergraduate and graduate programs, composed the first cohort of the Assembly Student Fellowship, which formally launched in fall of 2018 under the inaugural title “Techtopia.” The…

Among the most monumental decisions many people make is whether — and when — to try to have children. Quite likely, a 20-year-old has different needs and makes different choices around birth control than a person in their 30s or 40s. Yet, with so many available birth control methods, making this choice can be overwhelming.…

Professor of Astronomy Daniel Eisenstein leads one of nearly two dozen groups who have been granted access to the world’s fastest supercomputer to conduct research. Known as Summit, the massive system is located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), and is capable of reaching speeds as high as 200 petaflops, or 200 quadrillion…

Harvard’s MEDscience program recently welcomed Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh into its Simulation Lab at Harvard Medical School. The program, which was first launched in 2005, is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiative aimed at inspiring students by engaging them in science through hands-on experiences. Research shows that students who learn through simulation…

The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona announced the release of a nation-building toolbox dedicated to tribal courts and justice systems. The Tribal Justice Systems Toolbox  is the third EdTech platform in a series of self-governance tools released by the Harvard Project and institute. The…

Democratic presidential candidates proposing “free” college and pay increases for teachers will find substantial backing for these policies among voters; school vouchers and tax credits to fund scholarships to private schools are also popular, according to the 13th annual Education Next poll of American public opinion on education policy. Support for raising teacher pay is…

NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON — Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University, and JSTOR, the digital library for research and teaching that is part of the nonprofit ITHAKA, are pleased to welcome four Plant Humanities Fellows supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Offered for the first time this year, the fellowships enable emerging scholars…

Harvard President Larry Bacow recently welcomed Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern and hundreds of senior citizens to the 44th annual Harvard Cambridge Senior Luncheon. Guests enjoyed dancing and mingling with friends in Harvard’s historic Tercentenary Theatre. It was Andrea Haber’s first time coming to the luncheon. Haber, who has lived in Cambridge for more than 53…

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 Meats, Mindful Mints, and Sherwin-Williams sells a paint color they call Mindful Gray. There’s even Mindful Mayo, which you can buy at your local Whole…

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 Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. This prestigious honor underscores President Larry Bacow’s and Harvard University’s commitment to serving as a…

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 committed to using technology and digital tools to help strengthen our democratic institutions through citizen engagement, social empowerment, and government transparency and accessibility. The center’s…

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 that will provide significant research funding for up to four years to support immuno-oncology research led by Arlene Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D., at Harvard Medical School…

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 technology to make gene therapies safer and more effective. The Women World Awards are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and…

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 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a major exhibition of Buddhist ritual art, on view at the Cantor Art Gallery from Sept.…

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 by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, the prevalence of detectable viral load — an indication that the virus is not…

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 and Industry of the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region, and the…

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 July 30-31. The LCCN, a national network of city, county, and community leaders from 30 localities in the U.S. and Canada, uses children’s cabinets to…