A new study shows a humanitarian program focused on teaching youth affected by the Syrian war about the impacts of stress actually has a biological signature, in that it reduces…

The National Institute of Health has announced that Harvard co-Principal Investigators Dr. Mercè Crosas and Dr. Timothy Clark are NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase Awardees. The awards are part of…

Researchers from Harvard tackled big questions in data science and explored possibilities for collaboration with executives from Elsevier—an information and analytics company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical information—during a…

This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. Ballots will be mailed no later than April 1. Completed ballots…

Some chemical ingredients in makeup, skin, and hair care products may cause health risks such as allergic reactions, hair loss, asthma, and cancer. But determining which chemicals are dangerous among…

Eating a wider variety of fish, including species like hake, skate, and cusk, would help keep overall fish stocks strong, according to chef and author Barton Seaver. Diversifying in this…

The Harvard Office for Sustainability has announced a call for proposals for the 2018 round of grants through the University’s Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund (CSIF). The Fund, created in 2016, supports…

Students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and across the University came together at the Harvard iLab over the fall semester for an innovative new course—Design of Social…

The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has announced three finalists in the competition to revise the final line of Harvard’s alma mater. The finalists were selected out of…

A checklist and coaching intervention to improve facility-based childbirth care and reduce deaths of women and newborns in India achieved significant gains in the quality of care during labor and…

Lab equipment is expensive. When Maoyun Sun, a research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, needed a 4D-nucleofector unit for experiments…

When Donna Shalala decided to tackle smoking during her tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, she knew that it was going to take more…

The first World AIDS Day was Dec. 1, 1988. That same year, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HAI) was established to help end the epidemic. Max Essex, Mary Woodard…

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the Mexico Innovation Fund (MIF) and a call for proposals from Harvard faculty seeking to conduct collaborative research…

Ten local public health practitioners — all graduates of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Leaders in Health program — discussed their efforts to promote health and wellness in…

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today that it has received a $15 million gift from Ronald M. Druker, Loeb Fellow ’76, and the Bertram A. and…

Our love affair with plastic — from water bottles and shopping bags … to product packaging — is taking a toll on the world’s oceans, and damaging the health of…

On Nov. 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved the Harvard Summer School course list for 2018.  They also heard proposals on the Ph.D. program in bioinformatics and integrative…