Tag: Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research

  • Nation & World

    Risk rewarded

    Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.

    6 minutes
    Harvard University
  • Nation & World

    Recognition for some risky research

    The Star-Friedman Challenge is helping Harvard scientists during a time of great global uncertainty by boosting high-risk, high-impact research.

    5 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Opening the door for scientific leaps

    The projects range from making one the world’s smallest flying machines to opening a new lane of research in the study of climate change to developing a groundbreaking technology that conducts electricity with 100 percent efficiency to an investigation of how environmental change affects bees.

    5 minutes
    Man giving presentation
  • Nation & World

    Expanding support for leading research

    A gift from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A. ’80, J.D. ’82, and Beth Friedman, longstanding benefactors of the University, will double the resources available for high-risk, high-reward science, allowing more of the most ambitious research projects at Harvard to move forward.

    4 minutes
  • 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