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Harvard Professor Eric Mazur (pictured) has been named the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education. Mazur was recognized for his development of the peer-instruction teaching methodology, which "embodies the innovation in teaching excellence that the Minerva Prize was conceived to recognize and promote," said Roger Kornberg, the governor of the Minerva Academy.

Eric Mazur wins Minerva Prize

$500,000 award recognizes decades of innovation in the classroom

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DateMay 20, 2014

Team-based design projects feature prominently in AP 50. Aaron Perez '15 (center) and his teammates (photo 1) solve a series of riddles to break into a safe designed by another team of students in Professor Eric Mazur's class (photo 2). Joy Hui '16 and Perez use a pan pipe to prove their point (photo 3).

Where students own their education

AP 50, introductory applied physics, upends classroom learning, engaging students across fields

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DateSeptember 24, 2013May 6, 2019

Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, shared his experience of creating a startup company with Harvard Professor Gary King and postdoc fellow Brian Lukoff.

Who needed a stapler?

Mazur, King, Lukoff startup goes from nothing to something in 20 months

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DateAugust 28, 2013

Harvard Professor Gary King (left) collaborated with Professor Eric Mazur to ally his data analytic skills with Mazur’s teaching technology and methodology to form Learning Catalytics in 2011, which focused on improving classroom education.

Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit

At Harvard, efforts grow to bring creative concepts to market

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DateAugust 28, 2013April 12, 2019

Using laser ablation to slice through microtubules in the mitotic spindle, researchers have developed a clearer picture of how cell division occurs.

Rethinking mitosis

Nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory

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DateApril 29, 2012June 26, 2019

Kevin Vora, a graduate student in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, examines a sample in the lab. Vora and colleagues at SEAS led by Professor Eric Mazur developed a fabrication process that enables the creation of nanostructures patterned in three dimensions.

Building invisibility cloaks starts small

‘Lucky’ combination enables 3-D patterning for futuristic optical materials

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DateMarch 8, 2012June 19, 2019

The Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching sponsored a daylong conference that united experts and scholars from the University and beyond to debate, discuss, and share ideas on innovative pedagogy.

New initiative for better teaching

Scholars, experts explore creative approaches to instructing, learning

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DateFebruary 6, 2012March 13, 2019

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are developing a technology that can get test results for sepsis in an hour. Researchers often have to pursue their riskiest projects on the fringes of more mainstream work, says Wyss Director Don Ingber. But the Wyss puts that risky work front and center, giving researchers the freedom to pursue ideas that would not make the cut for traditional grants from funders such as the National Institutes of Health.

Innovate, create

Innovation, creativity power fresh thinking at Harvard

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DateFebruary 3, 2011April 15, 2019

Imaging technician Lily Brooks breathes new life into a Theodore Roosevelt manuscript inside Widener Library's digital lab.

Digital drive

Technological breakthroughs are changing scholarship all across campus

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DateDecember 16, 2010July 18, 2019

Light propagates via wires more slender than its own wavelength

Super-thin nanowires could yield optical chips, sensors for biological and chemical molecules

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DateJanuary 8, 2004

Surgery done on a single cell

Micromanipulation of the machinery of life

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DateDecember 4, 2003

New use found for black silicon

Since it emits electrons, it has countless uses, from cell phones to supercomputers

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DateOctober 11, 2001

Black silicon: A new way to trap light

Could lead to new ways to communicate with light

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DateDecember 9, 1999