Tag: Australia

  • Nation & World

    Wildfires are much worse than a sign of climate change

    Loretta Mickley, a Harvard wildfire expert, says wildfires are not just a symptom of climate change, but with the increased burning of millenia-old global peat stores, have the potential to worsen warming.

    7 minutes
    A wildfire burns on the mountainside in West Kelowna, Canada.
  • Nation & World

    Working with principals in fire-scarred Australia

    To allow more school principals to access their Leadership for School Excellence Program, instead of bringing Australian teachers to Cambridge, Harvard brought the program to them.

    7 minutes
    Woman with images projected on a screen.
  • Nation & World

    Breaking bonds of time

    “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” a special exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, makes room for different perspectives.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making use of the head

    Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Three days, three wild finds

    Tim Laman, an associate of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and an award-winning wildlife photographer, was part of a two-man team that helicoptered into a remote Australian rainforest earlier this year, coming out with three new species: two lizards and a frog.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Glimpses of paradise

    Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Amid the gold rush

    Harvard Olympians are making headway in the 2012 London Olympic Games.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Applications open for Australia-Harvard Fellowships

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2013 Australia-Harvard Fellowship program.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Taking the long way home

    A Harvard graduate student has shown that some Australian and Pacific Island daddy longlegs took an unusual path to their new homes: drifting from the Americas and then island-hopping to their new continental home in Australia.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How they spent summer

    Harvard students and instructors spent their summers in a myriad of ways, and places.

    15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A passion for unloving art

    Australian native Maria Gough, the Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard, studies the Russian and Soviet avant-garde periods because they portray “what the function of the artist is in a revolutionary climate.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Club of Australia Foundation awards fellowships to three from Harvard

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has awarded fellowships to three distinguished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2011.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Taming Australia

    The recent floods and drought experienced by Australia are extreme expressions of a naturally fluctuating water cycle that has been moderated with engineering and which the introduction of market reforms recently has made more efficient.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spotlight on the international

    Harvard is one of the world’s most international universities, with students and faculty from around the world. Overseas research and study abroad opportunities abound.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Thinking like an octopus

    A philosophy professor’s summer of diving in Sydney Harbour has gotten him thinking about what octopus intelligence might mean.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Brain gain

    A social scientist looks at how a patient China is reversing brain drain to the West.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Australia-Harvard Fellowships taking applications

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Thompson wins writing grant

    Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Human colonization of Australia and the Americas examined

    A recent symposium about the prehistory of Australia and the Americas brought together scholars from 10,000 miles apart. But that’s nothing compared to the journey early humans made to populate Australia and the Americas tens of thousands of years ago.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lighting the fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

    Harvard paleontologists have shed new light on one of the most enduring mysteries of life on Earth: the origins of the creatures that suddenly appear in the fossil record 530 million years ago in an event known as the Cambrian Explosion.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Australia-Harvard Fellowships named

    A biologist, a geologist, and a statistician are among the winners of the 2008 Australia-Harvard Fellowship, the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced. Diversities of career stage and profession characterize this year’s list of seven new fellows.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    HCA announces its 2007 Australia-Harvard Fellowships

    The Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) recently announced four winners of its 2007 Australia-Harvard Fellowships. The recipients are associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention Matthew W. Gillman of Harvard Medical School; Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Michael N. Starnbach, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School;…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Learned exchange’ goal of HCA fellowship

    Now in its third year of operation, the Australia-Harvard Fellowship supports innovative researchers who may be planning collaborative work with Australian research organizations. Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation, the fellowship aims to support learned exchange between the University and Australia.

    1 minute