Tag: SEAS
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Science & Tech
From a plant-free place, clues about how to help plants survive as planet warms
Data from salt flats suggest dry soil is worse than rising temperature
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Campus & Community
Oh. My. Gourd.
The stunt was a fundraiser for Harvard OpenBio, a student-run laboratory aimed at democratizing biology.
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Science & Tech
Fighting fire with fire
A study found that controlled burns in key areas of the U.S. West could drastically reduce smoke exposure
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Campus & Community
Serving up science on Pi Day
Students from four Boston Public Schools spent March 14 at the Science and Engineering Complex doing hands-on engineering projects and interacting with undergraduate and graduate students studying STEM at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Grid to help researchers make leap from lab to startup
The new initiative is designed to help speed up the translation of innovations from University labs into startups that bring to market products and services addressing climate change, alternative energy, sustainability, and other global challenges.
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Campus & Community
Puncturing myth of purity of science, technology
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Sheila Jasanoff, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, reflects on the long road she’s traveled to develop the field of science and technology studies.
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Campus & Community
Watching passion and perseverance pay off
Whether building an aircraft or learning to break dance, Harvard College student Robert Malate chose his own path.
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Campus & Community
Cellist finds creative side to physics
When she came to Harvard as a first-year, Danielle Davis ’21 thought music was her focus … until engineering piqued her interest.
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Campus & Community
Science and Engineering Complex named one of the world’s healthiest lab buildings
New lab complex will help Harvard progress toward its Sustainability Plan and achieve its goals to be fossil fuel-neutral by 2026 and fossil fuel-free by 2050.
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Science & Tech
Uncovering hidden chemicals
New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod.
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Science & Tech
Signs of quantum science
Harvard’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and The Learning Center for the Deaf are working together to develop American Sign Language modules on quantum science topics for undergraduate students with the aim of increasing STEM opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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Science & Tech
AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities
Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify the people within a social network who can most effectively promote information about HIV prevention to their peers.
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Work & Economy
Departing Business School dean recalls a consequential decade
After a decade helming Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria talks about what he’s learned and walking away from the job he loves.
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Science & Tech
Here comes the sun
Seasonal changes in UV may alter the spread of COVID but not as much as social distancing.
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Health
Turning the problem of cancer metastasis into an opportunity
Delivering immune-stimulating nanoparticles to the lungs via red blood cells halts tumor growth in mice.
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Science & Tech
Imagine clothing that stretches or shrinks to fit you
SEAS researchers have developed a material made from recycled wool can be 3D-printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory.
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Campus & Community
Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.
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Campus & Community
Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Science & Tech
Forestalling food waste
With the goal of reducing food waste, a student-developed device predicts when an avocado will be ripe
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Science & Tech
Better vaccines are in our blood
New platform technology uses red blood cells to generate targeted immune responses in mice
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Science & Tech
Nanofiber protects against extreme temperatures and projectiles
Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center and West Point, have developed a lightweight, multifunctional nanofiber material that can protect wearers from both extreme temperatures and ballistic threats.
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers
Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.
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Campus & Community
‘Moving in the right direction’
Nearly 2,000 faculty and staff from the FAS Division of Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences got back to their labs this week
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Campus & Community
Scenes from the socially distant
In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.
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Science & Tech
Toward an unhackable quantum internet
Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. The research is the missing link toward a practical quantum internet.
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Campus & Community
SEAS moves opening of Science and Engineering Complex to spring semester ’21
Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.
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Science & Tech
Students come together with Congregate
With the move to online classes, a group of Harvard students quickly formed a team and collaborated over spring break to develop Congregate, a web platform that enables users to host events or gatherings that are broken into many dynamically generated conversation rooms.
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Health
Labs donate protective equipment to health care workers
As University facilities close, faculty and staff gather gear to pass along amid a nationwide shortage.