Tag: Katia Bertoldi

  • Campus & Community

    Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors

    Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.

    7–10 minutes
    Gate Outside of Emerson Hall at Harvard.
  • 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.

    7–11 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    3-D material changes shape as it prepares for next task

    Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable, and self-actuated. It can change size, volume, and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Buckling under pressure

    Inspired by a spherical toy that expands and collapses, researchers at Harvard and MIT have created a new type of engineered capsule, called a “buckliball,” that exploits the phenomenon of buckling. The buckliball is the first morphable structure to incorporate buckling as a desirable engineering design element.

    4–6 minutes