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Freshman Celestine Warren worked on the project I Am My Filter. The team created an in-mouth water filter. This and other projects were developed through Engineering Sciences 20: “How to Create Things & Have Them Matter,” a course offered by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

I Am My Filter and more

SEAS class pushes students to make ideas into reality

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DateApril 14, 2011July 22, 2019

SEAS graduate student Alice Chen has received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her innovative applications of microtechnology to study human health and disease.

Chen wins Lemelson-MIT Prize

$30,000 student prize recognizes exceptional innovation

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DateMarch 9, 2011June 6, 2019

Leslie G. Valiant has been named the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.

Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award

SEAS innovator opened new frontiers

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DateMarch 9, 2011June 5, 2019

"NROTC's return to Harvard is good for the University, good for the military, and good for the country," said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. "Together, we have made a decision to enrich the experience open to Harvard's undergraduates, make the military better, and our nation stronger. Because with exposure comes understanding, and through understanding comes strength."

Harvard welcomes back ROTC

Navy Secretary Mabus joins President Faust to sign agreement

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DateMarch 3, 2011April 15, 2019

Chips, efficient and fast

Professor explores low-power circuits

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DateMarch 3, 2011May 31, 2019

Richard Sears, a visiting professor at MIT and senior science and engineering adviser for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, agreed with Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry Murray that the fundamental cause of the well blowout and consequent spill was a management style that addressed one problem at a time, but failed to see the big picture: "They completely forgot they had before them a very complex system."

Deep water, deep trouble

Experts: Management failed in BP spill

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DateFebruary 23, 2011May 17, 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

Slimy bacterial coatings known as biofilms (Bacillus subtilis colony superimposed at center) exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of liquids and even vapors. An electron microscope image shows the biofilm surface's resilient meshwork made from proteins and polysaccharides and assembled into a multiscale, hierarchical structure.

Slimy secrets

Biofilm finding may provide new direction in antimicrobial research

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DateJanuary 7, 2011March 15, 2019

Amelia Lin '11 watched with bated breath to see whether her team's car would maintain enough traction to reach the track.

Sharp turns

Final project a rigorous test of students’ powers of design

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DateJanuary 3, 2011

Guest speaker Howard Stone (right) demonstrates a standing wave during a lecture titled “Good Vibrations: How We Communicate,” which was hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Waves and the waggle dance

SEAS talk entices children into world of physics, biology

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DateDecember 21, 2010March 6, 2019

Administrator by day, singer by night

Massey augments interest in aiding research by performing onstage

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 18, 2019

Called a "magnetic sponge," a novel macroporous ferrogel is shown being compressed by an applied magnetic field. The reversible compression quickly forces out the drugs, cells, or proteins embedded in the ferrogel.

Squeezing life into patients

‘Magnetic sponge’ could be a new form of cell and drug delivery

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DateDecember 13, 2010July 8, 2019

Composed of faculty members and administrators from across the University, the new Harvard Library Board will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated management structure.

10 named to new Harvard Library Board

Group will oversee recommended changes to broad system

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DateDecember 10, 2010March 5, 2019

Cody Evans (left) and Sophie Wharton (center) explain to chefs from the Alicia Foundation in Spain about their project, "Parmesan Noodles." The trick was making pasta out of cheese.

At last, the edible science fair

Harvard students use imagination to stretch the limits of cuisine

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DateDecember 8, 2010March 19, 2019

Michael Tinkham, superconductivity pioneer, 82

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DateNovember 12, 2010April 18, 2019

“People were saying, ‘If we don’t do anything now, in 100 years the world will not exist,’” said Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe of his initial exposure to rising fears about global water consumption and impending shortages. “The more I looked into the water issue, I came to the conclusion that you don’t have to wait 100 years.”

The looming water shortage

Nestlé chief calls for more research as problem worsens

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DateNovember 4, 2010May 21, 2019

A ‘whif’ of a breakthrough

Innovator writes manifesto on a new lab model

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DateOctober 21, 2010

Harvard Business School has received a gift of $50 million from the Tata Trusts and Companies. This marks the School’s largest international donation in its 102-year history. Ratan Tata (from left), the chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., meets with Harvard President Drew Faust and Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria.

Business School announces Tata gift; two initiatives

$50 million to fund expanded executive education; innovation center also planned

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DateOctober 14, 2010March 25, 2019

Water utility expert Susan Leal helped transform San Francisco's unsafe water system. Now a senior fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative, Leal has co-authored a book on saving the world's water resources with Peter Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Spouting off

Book offers solutions to a global predicament

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DateOctober 7, 2010April 17, 2019

“It is gratifying to have the excellence of Harvard’s doctoral programs recognized by the National Research Council,” Harvard President Drew Faust said. “The fact that we have so many top-rated programs means that every student and faculty member, regardless of School or department, is able to benefit from the collective strength of the University, making the whole genuinely greater than the sum of the parts."

High marks for doctoral programs

Study rates Harvard Schools highly across many fields

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DateSeptember 28, 2010June 14, 2019

“These findings could have implications for methods of controlling the spread of fungal pathogens,” said senior author Anne Pringle, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard. “Sclerotinia alone costs U.S. farmers $1 billion annually, including costs of controlling the fungus, and crop losses. Research directed at understanding how to disrupt the cooperative ejection of spores may provide novel tools for the control of these fungal pathogens.”

More from spores: How they spread

Study shows how fungi launch them to surf on wind they create

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DateSeptember 27, 2010March 13, 2019

Lead author Scot Martin and his colleagues expect their ability to isolate relatively “pure” aerosol particles will help elucidate natural aerosol-cloud interactions in the Amazon Basin. Pictured is a typical cumulus cloud; sheets of rain can be seen underneath.

A clean break

Pristine particles could provide clues about climate change

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DateSeptember 16, 2010July 24, 2019

Emily Gardel, a Ph.D. candidate in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded a three-year DOE Science Graduate Fellowship.

SEAS student awarded fellowship

Emily Gardel to focus on energy potential of bacteria

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DateAugust 9, 2010July 22, 2019

Diane Truong, foreground, and Yiqiao Tang listen to discussion remarks from a McKinsey & Co. consultant.

Getting down to cases

Graduate students from various narrow fields learn the basics of being broad-based consultants

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DateAugust 4, 2010September 12, 2019

A recent scientific study of insect diversity suggests that it’s seasonality, not heat or light, that drives biodiversity.

Constant temps key to biodiversity

Research shows it is not about more sunlight and higher temperatures in the tropics

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DateJuly 20, 2010June 19, 2019

At a recycling exchange under a tent in front of Harvard's Science Center, Rosalind He (left) and Grace Imeson pore over stacks of free books.

Yes, it’s free

At Harvard ‘lawn swap,’ the idea is to go green by reusing

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DateJune 23, 2010June 26, 2019

Scientists hit on universal theory of bubbles

Agence France Presse

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DateJune 10, 2010

(Cambridge, MA - February 18, 2010) Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science David Parkes, poses for a portrait in his office at Maxwell Dworkin. Staff Photo Kristyn Ulanday/Harvard University

Inside electronic commerce

David C. Parkes combines computer science and economics

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DateMarch 4, 2010

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