Tag: Richard McCullough
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Campus & Community
New ideas for global warming solutions win $1M in funding
Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.
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Work & Economy
Fast-growing life sciences manufacturing startup settles into Allston
Harvard’s life sciences innovation community on its Allston campus gained another member last month in the fast-growing manufacturing startup National Resilience Inc.
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Campus & Community
Big step forward for planned center to boost cell- and gene-therapy advances
A new cell manufacturing and innovation center, headed by a unique partnership between academia and industry, has taken a key step — signing a lease in Watertown for its new home — as it looks toward 2022 opening.
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Science & Tech
Research labs score perfect COVID safety records
Six months after reopening, Harvard’s labs report an unblemished safety record, important contributions to the state’s economy, and an array of scientific findings, albeit with the requisite frustration of operating during a pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Same old labs but not
Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”
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Science & Tech
Tackling climate change through study
Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, now in its fifth year, is awarding seven research projects $1 million in grants.
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Science & Tech
New grants for climate solutions
Seven new research projects have been awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.
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Science & Tech
Optimism on U.N. climate talks
Panelists at the Kennedy School on Monday expressed optimism about the U.N. climate conference set to begin in Paris on Nov. 30, calling U.S. participation on the heels of domestic climate-related moves a “game-changer.”
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Science & Tech
Wanted: Climate change solutions
Harvard will again fund grants of up to $150,000 for promising ideas to combat climate change.
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Science & Tech
Support for seven from president’s climate fund
Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.
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Campus & Community
Energy research wins grant
Harvard chemist Cynthia Friend has been awarded a major center grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences’ Energy Frontier Research Centers program, which is designed “to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.”
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Science & Tech
Advancing science and technology
The National Science Foundation is awarding grants to create three new science and technology centers this year, with two of them based in Cambridge. The two multi-institutional grants total $45 million over five years.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names vice provost for research
Harvard names Richard McCullough of Carnegie Mellon University as the vice provost for research.