Tag: Michael Brenner

  • Health

    Reading shapes

    A team of Harvard researchers has demonstrated that a shared developmental mechanism in songbirds is responsible for generating tremendous variability in their beaks, and is also a control on what kind variation can be produced.

  • Health

    Pecking order

    Harvard researchers have found that a new investigation of tissues and signaling pathways in finches’ beaks reveals surprising flexibility in the birds’ evolutionary tool kit.

  • Campus & Community

    Feeding culinary curiosity

    A summer program aims to teach local schoolchildren that the kitchen and the laboratory — both intimidating places to newcomers — are a great place to explore their natural curiosity, and to learn lifelong healthy habits, too.

  • Campus & Community

    Dynamic partners

    A longtime partnership at the Radcliffe Institute pairs students and fellows on a range of scholarly projects and research.

  • Science & Tech

    Bubble, bubble — without toil or trouble

    Among the advances linked to Harvard is one that came in a field not normally associated with the University: the culinary arts. Cooks use a professor’s 1850s invention, baking powder, as a time-saving replacement for yeast.

  • Science & Tech

    Slow road to stability for emulsions

    By studying the behavior of tiny particles at an interface between oil and water, researchers at Harvard have discovered that stabilized emulsions may take longer to reach equilibrium than previously thought.

  • Science & Tech

    He blended it with science

    Harvard professor and current Radcliffe fellow Michael Brenner explores the evolution of his wildly popular cooking course.

  • Campus & Community

    It was a very good year

    With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.

  • Science & Tech

    Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize

    Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

  • Campus & Community

    Five awarded College Professorships

    Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

  • Science & Tech

    Learning from toys

    Using magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures that echo self-assembled clusters of atoms and molecules.