Featured series 
Tag: Research
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Arts & Culture
Rescuing ancient languages
Harvard Linguistics Professor Maria Polinsky and her lab team work to understand and preserve ancient Mayan tongues, with the help of native speakers.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe welcomes 2011-12 fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has selected 51 fellows for the 2011-12 year.
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Arts & Culture
What books mean as objects
Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.
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Nation & World
The influence of neighbors
Where we live and who we know can affect our voting patterns, Harvard researcher suggests.
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Campus & Community
Second annual Burke Global Health Fellows named
The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced the selection of the second annual Burke Global Health Fellows.
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Arts & Culture
Field Notes on Science & Nature
Michael Canfield, a lecturer on organismic and evolutionary biology, visits an eclectic range of scientific disciplines, offering examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.
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Campus & Community
Harvard scientist wins Sackler Prize
Harvard Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang has been awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, awarded at Tel Aviv University.
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Campus & Community
Planting a research center in the arboretum
With the opening of the Weld Hill facility at Arnold Arboretum, staff members and lab equipment are filling the long-awaited space dedicated to botanical research.
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Campus & Community
Harvard rallies against cancer
Now through April 8, team up with other Harvard faculty and staff members to shut out cancer through Harvard Community Gifts.
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Health
Multiple myeloma genome unveiled
Harvard scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive picture to date of the full genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer.
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Campus & Community
HMS fellowship open for applicants
Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
HKS announces winners of Neustadt and Schelling Awards
One of the nation’s most eminent economists and a dynamic young development economist are recipients of the 2011 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.
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Health
Deep thinker
Scientists are advancing in their understanding of the biology of the deep sea, which still remains largely unexplored and mysterious, according to Associate Professor Peter Girguis.
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Science & Tech
Harvard Medical School researchers crawl a neural network
Scientists can finally look at circuits in the brain in all of their complexity. How the mind works is one of the greatest mysteries in nature, and this research presents a new and powerful way for us to explore that mystery.
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Health
Web-crawling the brain
Researchers in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School have developed a technique for unraveling these masses. Through a combination of microscopy platforms, researchers can crawl through the individual connections composing a neural network, much as Google crawls web links.
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Science & Tech
URES taps three SEAS grad students
Three technology proposals from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been selected for presentation at the University Research and Entrepreneurship Symposium (URES).
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Campus & Community
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg was a professor of psychiatry and chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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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.
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Health
Designing gene
Taking advantage of the simple color pattern of deer mice, Harvard researchers showed that small changes in the activity of a single pigmentation gene in embryos generate big differences in adult color pattern.
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Science & Tech
Mapping the Human Genome: Ten Years After
On February 15, 2001, a decade ago, the first draft sequence and analysis of the human genome—the blue print for a human being—was published in the journal Nature. On the tenth anniversary of that transformative moment, Harvard hosted an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional forum on the genome project’s origins, promise, and significance to society.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Club of Australia Foundation awards fellowships to three from Harvard
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has awarded fellowships to three distinguished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2011.
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Campus & Community
Project success
Project Success, a program operated by the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, targets Boston and Cambridge high school students to participate in mentored summer research internships with Harvard researchers.
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Campus & Community
Get ready, think big
Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.
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Campus & Community
Daffodil Days are here again
Members of the Harvard community are invited to purchase fresh bouquets of daffodils for $10 to support the research and programs of the American Cancer Society. The deadline to order is March 1.
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Health
Nabokov’s blues
Ten years before his novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov published a detailed hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the Polyommatus blues butterflies. A team, led by a Harvard professor, is proving him right.
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Campus & Community
Anthology includes two articles by Blier
Two articles by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, have been included in an online anthology of The Art Bulletin.
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Campus & Community
Call for applications for two I Tatti fellowships
Villa I Tatti is currently accepting applications for two fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies receives $156,000 grant
Harvard’s interdisciplinary Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies, led by Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, was recently awarded a $156,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.