Tag: Research
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Science & Tech
Inklings of suicide
Two new computerized tests, developed at Harvard, show promise in predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide.
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Campus & Community
Learning in the labs
This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.
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Campus & Community
Conflict of interest policy adopted
The Harvard Corporation has adopted a University-wide conflict of interest policy, the first time such a policy has been crafted to cover faculty members across the entire campus.
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Campus & Community
Medical School revises COI policy
Harvard Medical School released a series of revisions to its conflict of interest policy that strengthens its commitment to transparency and financial disclosure while recognizing the School’s commitment to industry collaboration.
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Campus & Community
Australia-Harvard Fellowships taking applications
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.
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Campus & Community
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants
Nine rising seniors pursuing a secondary field in health policy have been awarded Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants by the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.
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Campus & Community
Racing down the river
Master swimmers will race in the Charles River, where one Harvard professor sees an opportunity for lessons.
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Campus & Community
Belsky named managing director of Joint Center for Housing Studies
Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.
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Campus & Community
Three Harvard scientists named Pew Scholars
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Fernando Camargo, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) Alexander Gimelbrant, and Sun Hur, assistant professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS, have been named 2010 Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Health
Nobel winners and losers
Author Erling Norrby discusses how the Nobel Prizes for the sciences, while often awarding breakthrough efforts, also can miss pivotal findings that made a difference.
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Science & Tech
Insights on quantum mechanics
Physicists create an artificial material to gain up-close insights into quantum materials and how they interact.
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Campus & Community
Panel ponders digital divide
University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.
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Campus & Community
South Asia Initiative offers grants for summer
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative (SAI) has raised the profile of South Asian studies at Harvard and internationally; generated interdisciplinary research; sent faculty and students to…
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Campus & Community
Korea Institute offers undergraduates Korean study opportunities
The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, distinguished scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean Studies community at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Asia Center to support travel for 66 students from Harvard
This summer, the Asia Center will support 66 students traveling to East, South, and Southeast Asia to conduct research, participate in internships, and pursue intensive language study.
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Campus & Community
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies aids student research
The Fairbank Center collaborates with the Harvard University Asia Center to offer undergraduate and graduate student grants for Chinese language study and research travel.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute funds Japanese research, travel
For the 2009-10 academic school year and summer of 2010, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has funded or facilitated the travel to Japan of 112 Harvard students, undergraduate and graduate, and has funded others for language study and research related to Japan, but conducted in other locations, from Cambridge to Moscow.
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Campus & Community
Harvard China Fund supports student efforts
Established in 2006 under the Office of the Provost, the Harvard China Fund (HCF) is a University-wide “academic venture fund” with three core objectives: partnerships, students, and presence.
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Campus & Community
David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program
In the second year of the David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program, more than 400 Harvard College students accepted funding for international internships, volunteer projects, study abroad programs, and research opportunities in 53 countries across the world.
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Campus & Community
CES awards travel grants for 2010-11
The Center for European Studies has awarded senior thesis travel grants to 34 undergraduates and 18 graduate students to fund summer research.
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Campus & Community
HEEP awards 2009-10 student prizes
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program recently awarded four prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.
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Campus & Community
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize awarded
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 89 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work.
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Campus & Community
DRCLAS sponsors summer travel in Latin American Studies
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 160 students to travel to Latin America for work, research, and study this summer.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson dies at 62
Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson died May 15 of pancreatic cancer.
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Campus & Community
Trudeau Foundation awards scholarship to Lisa Kelly of HLS
Lisa Kelly, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School (HLS), has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2010 Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
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Campus & Community
National Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard
Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Arts & Culture
Peering into gearworks of FDA
Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.