Tag: Economic Development

  • Nation & World

    Big step forward for planned center to boost cell- and gene-therapy advances

    A new cell manufacturing and innovation center, headed by a unique partnership between academia and industry, has taken a key step — signing a lease in Watertown for its new home — as it looks toward 2022 opening.

    5 minutes
    300 North Beacon St., Waterown building.
  • Nation & World

    Funding the future

    The Star Family Challenge makes grants every year to high-risk, high-reward research efforts that might not receive funding through other programs. This year’s recipients are Edo Berger, Katia Bertoldi, Edward Glaeser, Talia Konkle, and Bence Ölveczky.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Let the challenges begin

    President Drew Faust and Provost Alan M. Garber today announced the third President’s Challenge for entrepreneurship, renewing an invitation to all Harvard students and postdoctoral fellows to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Earth feels impact of middle class

    The rise of the middle class is a bigger environmental challenge than the rising global population, according to Sir David King, the former science adviser to the British government, who urged the adoption of sustainable development as a way to manage growing global demands in a finite world.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Innovations in American Government finalists named

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School on Nov. 9 announced the finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Odinga optimistic about Africa’s democratic future

    Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga expresses optimism about Kenya’s democratic future.

    4 minutes