Tag: Rachel Field

  • Nation & World

    Now available on the Web? Smells

    Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Designing a cleaner future

    A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention when the world realized it’s where computers go to die. That was when Harvard undergraduate Rachel Field ’12 devoted her senior thesis project to addressing the problem. Her solution was an award-winner.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A spotlight on China

    Fund supports Harvard programs in everything from student activities to faculty research in rising Asian giant.

    4 minutes