Tag: Rutgers University

  • Science & Tech

    Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change

    One certainty about America’s coasts is that they will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise. Visiting Professor Steven Handel said landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge receives Lasker Award

    For seminal discoveries that have illuminated the DNA damage response, Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is being recognized with the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. The award is considered to be among the most respected in biomedicine.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    On the page, life after prison

    Author Tayari Jones, a Radcliffe fellow, is at work on her fourth novel, set in the American South. “Dear History” explores how a family comes to terms with a wrongful conviction.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where town meets gown

    A Radcliffe and Rappaport symposium explored the important city-university relationship, and areas where each side can benefit the other.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    ‘Made of fire’

    Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Caring for caring

    The art and technology of care giving — undervalued now — “cuts to the quick” of our humanity. Caring — for others, for ourselves, even for things and places — is at the core of our humanity. But how to cope with its demands in a medical setting was the subject of a two-panel conference,…

    7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur Award

    Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.

    2 minutes