The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today a $150,000 grant to the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) to create an innovative learning experience titled “What’s…

Twenty-three public service visionaries and social entrepreneurs from Harvard Law School have been selected as recipients of grants from the Public Service Venture Fund, a unique program that awards up…

Flashed on screen at a recent Harvard symposium was an illustration from the year 1308 showing students in a lecture-style class. Some are fooling around. Some look bored. One is…

Examining urban heat vulnerability, GSD assistant professor of urban planning Joyce Klein Rosenthal recently published “Intra-Urban Vulnerability to Heat-Related Mortality in New York City” in the journal Health and Place. Unlike past research on this…

Two new studies are weighing in on the ongoing debate about whether the best diet is low-fat or low-carbohydrate, but Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition expert Frank Hu says that no one diet can claim…

HarvardX for Allston is a new educational initiative which brings HarvardX content and edX online courses to the Allston-Brighton community and general public by offering programs that integrate the latest…

In the years since a 2011 study found that early treatment with antiretroviral drugs could reduce HIV transmission between couples in which one partner has the virus and the other does not,…

In 2002, Harvard opened another online door to its vast collections via the Open Collections Program, an early effort to design web-accessible collections to support research, teaching and learning for anyone…

Old habits may die hard, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. David Gordon Lyon, founder of Harvard’s Semitic Museum, Hollis Professor of Divinity and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and…

The Parker Quartet will present its first concert as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at the Harvard on Friday, September 26 at 8 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. The concert features Haydn’s String…

Judith D. Singer, senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, is the recipient of the 13th annual Janet L. Norwood Award…

HarvardX invites creative coders everywhere to a learning technology challenge. The mission is to create an interactive visualization of the binomial distribution suitable for students who are learning the topic of probability. Possible…

Jonathan Haber, the lifelong learner behind Degree of Freedom and author of MOOCs: The Essential Guide, has been appointed the inaugural HarvardX Visiting Fellow. He begins his six month appointment in September. Haber…

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports no known cases of Ebola transmission in the United States, a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)/SSRS poll released August 21, 2014 shows that…

In only two months as an intern in a lab at Harvard School of Public Health, Erika Espinosa believes she learned more than she could have in a semester of…

When she was running for a seat in Japan’s house of representatives, Mayuko Toyota, SM ’02, one day found herself standing in the rain on crutches, giving a speech at a common…

The U.S. spends more than $2.8 trillion on health care each year, and some estimate that 30% of that price tag may be waste. To promote more effective use of health care resources,…

For the past year, Harvard Law students in the Education Law Clinic have travelled back and forth to the Massachusetts State House to lobby state legislators to pass an Act…

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Emily Balskus has been named an Innovator Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. Each year since 1999, editors of the review have selected exceptionally…

Conventional wisdom holds that the cytoplasm of mammalian cells is a viscous fluid, with organelles and proteins suspended within it, jiggling against one another and drifting at random. However, a…

Harvard’s popular Science & Cooking lecture series will return on Sept. 8, bringing world-class chefs and eminent food experts to campus for weekly talks and demonstrations that are open to…

A follow-up study led by a joint team of Harvard and MIT researchers explores the promise and perils of de-identifying learner data from MOOCs (massive open online courses) and offers…

Women who consume higher amounts of caffeine may have a lower risk of developing tinnitus — a steady ringing in the ear — than women who consume less, according to a new…

Physics graduate students Erik Bauch and Georg Kucsko have developed an online tool, Open Rev., for collaborative annotation of scientific publications. Open Rev. enables open discussion about scholarly works, independent…

Graduate School of Design alumna Amale Andraos has been appointed dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). An associate professor at GSAPP and a principal…

The Harvard University Archives and Schlesinger Library opened their doors to a display of food-related items. While recipes abounded, a few items took the cake, including Julia Child’s Emmy award,…

The Judaica Division’s latest publication — “Harvard Judaica in the 21st Century” by Charles Berlin — was recently published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Division. In 1962 the Division was…

Tozzer Library returned to an entirely rebuilt and redesigned space following two years in temporary quarters. The original Tozzer Library building  was almost completely demolished and rebuilt and enlarged to…

A film by pioneering director Robert J. Flaherty — which film historians believed to have been lost — was rediscovered at Harvard’s Houghton Library. The short film “Oidhche Sheanchais” (“A Night…

Today, more people than ever have health insurance. In the U.S., millions have signed up for coverage since the 2008 passage of the Affordable Care Act. Globally, there’s a high level of…