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Tag: Faculty
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Campus & Community
HMS Dept. of Ophthalmology awarded RPB grant
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.
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Campus & Community
Hempton named first McDonald Family Professor
David N. Hempton, a renowned social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America, has been named as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Women far behind in patent awards
Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.
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Arts & Culture
Founder of Harvard’s Statistics Department, Frederick Mosteller, dies
Pioneering statistician Frederick Mosteller, a retired Harvard professor whose broad-ranging work influenced public health, medicine, education, and even American history, died Sunday (July 23) at age 89.
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Science & Tech
Judah M. Folkman, MD
In the early 1970s Folkman refined his theory that tumors have the capability to grow their own blood vessels, thereby obtaining the nourishment they need to keep growing in a body. Folkman never quit thinking about why this happens and how he might use that information to treat cancer patients.
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Science & Tech
E.O. Wilson, “Ant Man”
E. O. Wilson reflects on insect societies, human society, and the importance of biodiversity.
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Science & Tech
Prof. Lene Hau: Stopping light cold
In 2005, Professor Lene Hau did something that Einstein theorized was impossible. Hau stopped light cold using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab.