Tag: FAS

  • Health

    Improving stem cells’ regenerative potential

    A team at Harvard Stem Cell Institute recently found that transplanting mesenchymal stem cells along with blood-vessel-forming cells naturally found in circulation improves results. This co-transplantation keeps the mesenchymal stem cells alive longer in mice after engraftment, up to a few weeks compared with hours without co-transplantation.

  • Campus & Community

    5 named Harvard College Professors

    Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.

  • Science & Tech

    Now available on the Web? Smells

    Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.

  • Science & Tech

    Worrisome growth pattern

    Forest growth is starting to show the effects of climate change, new research finds.

  • Health

    A malignant ‘switch’ in breast cancer

    A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, those frequently involved in breast cancer.

  • Campus & Community

    Above and beyond

    Harvard Heroes ceremony celebrates 64 unsung staffers for their unusual and valuable contributions to University life.

  • Science & Tech

    Delving into dark matter

    Harvard physicists have suggested that a disk of dark matter may lie along the center line of the galaxy.

  • Health

    A shot against heart attacks?

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists collaborating with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a “genome-editing” approach for permanently reducing cholesterol levels in mice through a single injection, a development with the potential to reduce the risk of heart attacks in humans by 40 to 90 percent.

  • Campus & Community

    Abramson Award to Spirling, Combes

    Arthur Spirling, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Government Department, and Stacey Combes, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard University: Year in Pictures 2013-2014

    Harvard University captures some of its most memorable moments from the 2013-14 academic year.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘Godzilla of Earths’ discovered

    Astronomers announced Monday that they have discovered a new type of planet — a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. This planet is all solids and much bigger than previously discovered “super-Earths,” making it a “mega-Earth.”

  • Campus & Community

    ‘So that represented my own little rebellion’

    Interview with Professor Stephen Greenblatt as part of the Experience series.

  • Nation & World

    Rewarding restlessness

    Five seniors will soon head to foreign shores as part of a fellowship program that emphasizes experience over work and independence over comfort.

  • Campus & Community

    House renewal and rebirth

    House renewal is one of the largest and most ambitious capital improvement campaigns in Harvard College history, aiming to transform the student experience by ensuring that each House can strongly support the learning and living needs of the modern undergraduate.

  • Arts & Culture

    Summertime, and the reading is easy

    A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.

  • Health

    Strategy for diabetes treatment

    Harvard scientists have discovered a compound that inhibits insulin-degrading enzyme from breaking down insulin in the body.

  • Campus & Community

    Eric Mazur wins Minerva Prize

    The Minerva Academy on Tuesday named Eric Mazur the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Physics was paradise’

    Interview with Professor Melissa Franklin as part of the Experience series.

  • Campus & Community

    May Day poetry at Lowell House

    As part of the traditional daylong May Day celebration, a poetry reading by the Lowell House Poemical Society took place May 1 at Lowell House, with festivities also featuring an early morning waltz on the Weeks Bridge, a bacchanal, and a recital with the historic Lowell House bells.

  • Health

    Research to lose sleep over

    Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.

  • Science & Tech

    Studying energy, environment

    Beginning this fall, Harvard undergraduates will be able to select a secondary field of study in energy and environment, which will allow students in an array of concentrations to gain exposure to issues such as climate change.

  • Health

    Parental controls

    It could be that the key to being a better parent is all in your head, Harvard researchers say.

  • Nation & World

    Building bridges among diverse faiths

    Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl, senior rabbi-designate at New York City’s Central Synagogue; Sheik Yasir Qadhi, dean of academic affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute; and the Rev. J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, gathered for a discussion on the role of religion in public life.

  • Health

    ‘Heart disease-on-a-chip’

    Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and “organ-on-a-chip” technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, because it is working proof that a chunk of tissue containing a patient’s specific genetic disorder can be replicated…

  • Science & Tech

    Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe

    Astronomers have created the first realistic virtual universe using a computer simulation called Illustris. Illustris can re-create 13 billion years of cosmic evolution in a cube 350 million light-years on a side with unprecedented resolution.

  • Campus & Community

    82 percent of admitted to attend

    Nearly 82 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2018 will matriculate at Harvard College, which would be the highest percentage to attend since slightly more than 83 percent of those admitted to the Class of 1973 came in 1969.

  • Science & Tech

    When engineering meets art

    Music blared, LEDs blinked, and jaws dropped Tuesday at the SEAS Design and Project Fair, a celebration of creative problem-solving by students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

  • Campus & Community

    Students receive Barrett Award

    The Bureau of Study Counsel awarded Keerthi Reddy ’14 and Daniel Wilson ’14 the Joseph L. Barrett Award on May 5.

  • Campus & Community

    Sandberg named Class Day speaker

    Successful businesswoman, best-selling author, and Harvard alumna Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, has been chosen as the 2014 Class Day speaker. Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.org, will address seniors in Tercentenary Theatre on May 28, the day before Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

  • Science & Tech

    Another step in the wrong direction

    Climate specialists came together at the Geological Lecture Hall to consider a dangerous milestone in carbon dioxide levels.