Tag: high risk

  • Science & Tech

    Aramont Fellowships spotlight and support pathbreaking initiatives

    Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.

    Science image.
  • Science & Tech

    Wanted: Bold ideas

    The Star-Friedman Challenge for Scientific Research is ready to provide seed funding for high-risk, high-impact work in the life, physical, and social sciences. Harvard researchers have until March 1 to apply for the funding.

    Creative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles
  • Campus & Community

    NIH makes $8.5M investment in promising projects

    Eight Harvard scientists will receive nearly $8.5 million in funding through the National Institutes of Health’s High Risk, High Reward program to support research.

    Science image to announce seven faculty receiving NIH grants totalling nearly $8.5 million.
  • Campus & Community

    Funding the future

    The Star Family Challenge makes grants every year to high-risk, high-reward research efforts that might not receive funding through other programs. This year’s recipients are Edo Berger, Katia Bertoldi, Edward Glaeser, Talia Konkle, and Bence Ölveczky.

  • Health

    Reproductive strategies

    When compared with a solitary strategy of producing offspring who then go on to produce their own offspring, a new Harvard study has found that eusociality is a high-risk, high-reward gamble.