Tag: Ice

  • Nation & World

    The conundrum for international students

    In a Q&A session, Vice Provost for International Affairs Mark Elliott discusses the recent struggle with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over allowing students from other countries into the U.S. He also outlines the programs that Harvard has put in place to support international students.

    15 minutes
    Mark Elliott
  • Nation & World

    From ancient flooding, modern insights

    Tamara Pico, a postdoctoral fellow, is using records of flooding in the Bering Strait to make inferences about how the ice sheets that covered North America responded to the warming climate, and how their melting might have contributed to climate changes.

    5 minutes
    Tamara Pico in front of an image of the Earth.
  • Nation & World

    A stand-up stands up for migrants and immigration

    Cristela Alonzo weaves the experiences of her difficult-yet-joyful upbringing into stand-up humor.

    9 minutes
    Comedian Cristela Alonzo
  • Nation & World

    An icy welcome

    Charles River, frozen into the spring, hampers Harvard’s crew season. Lightweight crew competitions were canceled for Saturday due to the icy conditions on the Charles. The men’s heavyweight crew will compete on April 4.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Popsicle Earth

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

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Now, ice won’t stick

    A Harvard team of researchers has invented a way to keep any metal surface free of ice and frost. The treated surfaces quickly shed even tiny, incipient condensation droplets or frost, simply through gravity.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ice sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue

    Gravity’s surprising effects when the Earth’s ice sheets melt can help to stabilize ones, such as those found in West Antarctica, that are grounded below sea level.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Icebreaker

    Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard’s Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers upstairs.

    5 minutes