Tag: Scientific Research

  • Nation & World

    What we learned

    Highlights from another year of discovery at Harvard, where inquiring minds are the norm.

    3 minutes
    Collage of black hole image, ice sheets, runners, and coffee.
  • Nation & World

    The unsavory side of sugar

    “Epidemiologic, Physiologic, and Policy Considerations of the Sugar Epidemic” brought health and science experts together at Harvard Medical School to discuss sugar’s effects on health and public policy.

    5 minutes
    Sugar.
  • Nation & World

    Rewarding remarkable studies

    The annual awards created through a gift from James A. Star ’83 fund research unlikely to be funded through other programs — risky studies with the potential to contribute to radical new understandings of our world.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inquiring minds rewarded

    Ideas in language, health, and astronomy are winners in this year’s Star Family Challenge, a grant that funds high-risk, high-reward research.

    8 minutes