Tag: FAS

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming the Class of ’17

    At the annual Freshman Convocation Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust and other University officials told the Class of ’17 to embrace challenges, reach out to fellow students and others, and keep open minds about what the future should hold.

  • Science & Tech

    Pinched minds

    The accumulation of money woes and day-to-day anxiety leaves many low-income individuals not only struggling financially, but cognitively, says Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan. In a study featured in Science, he reports that the “cognitive deficit” caused by poverty translates into as many as 10 IQ points.

  • Campus & Community

    Updated Quincy a happy home

    After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy, the first test project in the House Renewal initiative, began welcoming students this week.

  • Campus & Community

    David S. Landes, 89, dies

    David S. Landes, a renowned historian whose work focused on the complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance, died Aug. 17 at age 89.

  • Science & Tech

    Transparent artificial muscle plays music

    Using a gel-based audio speaker, Harvard researchers have shown that electrical charges carried by ions, rather than electrons, can be put to meaningful use in fast-moving, high-voltage devices.

  • Arts & Culture

    Food, gender, culture

    Harvard Summer School is big, young, diverse, and challenging — qualities summed up nicely by a course on food, gender, and American culture.

  • Science & Tech

    Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change

    A Harvard model predicts that by 2050, wildfire seasons will be three weeks longer, up to twice as smoky, and will burn a wider area in the western United States.

  • Science & Tech

    One goal, many players

    GoAmazon2014 is part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest umbrella for research in the Amazon, which explores everything from social issues to scientific inquiries.

  • Science & Tech

    Atop the Amazon rainforest

    Harvard air chemistry expert Scot Martin is working with the Department of Energy, as well as several international partners, to track how pollution above the pristine Amazon rainforest is changing the climate.

  • Nation & World

    Who needed a stapler?

    Harvard Professors Eric Mazur and Gary King, together with postdoctoral fellow Brian Lukoff, took an idea about how to change classroom teaching and created a company based on it. When the company sold last spring, it didn’t even own a stapler.

  • Science & Tech

    Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit

    A growing number of Harvard faculty members, fellows, and even students are looking to take their innovative ideas a step further and bring them to the marketplace.

  • Campus & Community

    Boxes, bins, and bedding

    Harvard Yard began to come alive again Monday morning as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus.

  • Campus & Community

    Eat, play, sleep

    As freshmen move into dorms in and around the Yard, fellow students, faculty, and administrators offer their advice on how best to adjust to the Harvard experience. Their suggestions range from maintaining basic wellness to making sure to have fun.

  • Science & Tech

    Popsicle Earth

    A recently published paper says that during the last glacial maximum, more ice than previously thought covered the globe.

  • Campus & Community

    Old Quincy, suddenly new

    After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy is ready to welcome back students for the academic year.

  • Science & Tech

    The look of music

    A new study by Chia-Jung Tsay, a musician and Harvard Ph.D., examines the power of visual information in evaluating classical music.

  • Campus & Community

    A walk in Thoreau’s woods

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.

  • Science & Tech

    Seeds of violence in climate change

    Nathan Black, the French Environmental Fellow, is studying how nations fall into civil war during the type of agricultural disruption possible with a changing climate — and what some nations might do to prevent it.

  • Campus & Community

    The story deepens

    East Boston elementary school children are exploring and interpreting “The Wizard of Oz” through the creative arts using a program called Pre-Texts, which was developed by Doris Sommer, the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    A boost to international learning

    Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences has provided a boost to four new programs, as well as providing renewal or extension funding to three other projects.

  • Health

    A marker for breast cancer

    An international scientific collaborative led by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Kornelia Polyak has discovered why women who give birth in their early 20s are less likely to develop breast cancer than women who don’t, triggering a search for a way to confer this protective state on all women.

  • Campus & Community

    Study mixed with cello

    Seoul native Hansung Ryu has returned home from Harvard after two months as an intern at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where he also found time for the Harvard Summer School Orchestra.

  • Arts & Culture

    Oscar winner Matt Damon on his Harvard years

    Actor Matt Damon, former Harvard College student and winner of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, talks of his time on campus, his lifelong desire to be an actor, and how a College playwriting course assignment later turned into the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Sneakers, flip-flops, stilettos

    This summer, dance students are learning how to swing, tango, salsa, and waltz, thanks to classes offered by Harvard Ballroom, a nonprofit, student-run dance organization that offers social dance classes throughout the year.

  • Science & Tech

    Seeing depth through a single lens

    Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a way for photographers and microscopists to create a 3-D image through a single lens, without moving the camera.

  • Campus & Community

    At 101, another look around

    The only one of the Class of 1933 to return at Commencement has led a life of adventure and accomplishment.

  • Health

    A cross-country collaboration

    Amy Wagers and Emmanuelle Passegué have found that cancer stem cells actively remodel the environment of bone marrow, where blood cells are formed, so that it is hospitable only to diseased cells. This finding could influence the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants.

  • Arts & Culture

    Boston, hotbed of anti-slavery

    A Houghton Library exhibit, the work of students, takes in Boston’s sweeping role in ending slavery in America.

  • Health

    Good health lasts later in life

    Working from data collected between 1991 and 2009 from almost 90,000 individuals who responded to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Professor David Cutler has found that, even as life expectancy has increased over the past two decades, people have become increasingly healthier later in life.

  • Arts & Culture

    A year set to music

    Matt Aucoin has been busy since graduating from Harvard last year. The young conductor and composer splits his time among Europe, New York, and Chicago, and is working on a Civil War-themed opera for the American Repertory Theater.