Tag: David A. Edwards

  • Arts & Culture

    Entrance, stage left

    Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.

    4–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Arts at center stage

    While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”

    6–10 minutes
  • Health

    Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine may be more effective than injected vaccine

    A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable dose of the traditional injected vaccine, researchers report this week (March 12) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).…

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Edwards honored by Michigan Tech Michigan Technological University has named David A. Edwards — a 1983 graduate of the university and the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard — the winner of its Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction. The medal recognizes individuals with an affiliation with the university who have…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Students develop system to fight TB

    A new system developed by Harvard undergraduates delivers anti-tuberculosis drugs through an inhaler, increasing the likelihood that patients will take them over longer periods, and reducing the side effects of pills and injections. To test and market the system, the group has formed a nonprofit corporation called MEND (MEdicine in NeeD). “It’s the beginning of…

    1–2 minutes