Current Events and Campus Life
Summer journey connects Harvard students to Viking history
August 18, 2017
Would you like to try a little mead? Tour a Viking replica ship? Search for remnants of pirate raiders from the eighth, ninth, 10th, and 11th centuries? If the answer is “yes,” the Harvard Summer... Continue reading
In giving back to Ed Portal, Harvard intern now sows what he reaped
August 18, 2017
Each day when Jose Mendoza walks through the doors of the Harvard Ed Portal, he smiles. The Allston man knows he is living the dream his parents had for him when he was just a boy and the family was... Continue reading
Wyss-developed antifouling coating a boon to business and environment
August 17, 2017
It all began with a bet. At a conference in Italy in 2013, Nicolas Vogel, then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg’s lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at... Continue reading
Brain flexibility changes the way we remember and learn
August 17, 2017
The human brain has a region of cells responsible for linking sensory cues to actions and behaviors and cataloging the link as a memory. Cells that form these links have been deemed highly stable... Continue reading
Daniel Lieberman opens lab to give teens hands-on opportunity
August 15, 2017
For high school student Simão Silva, visiting a biology lab at Harvard was just part of his summer school curriculum. What the 17-year-old Cristo Rey High School student didn’t plan on this summer... Continue reading
Faculty and staff panels will support search for Harvard’s next president
August 15, 2017
Harvard’s presidential search committee, comprising the 12 members of the University’s Corporation other than the president along with three members of the Board of Overseers, today announced the... Continue reading
Harvard researchers examine firehouse cancer threat
August 14, 2017
Harvard researchers have teamed up with local fire departments to tackle a health care mystery: How does the firehouse itself increase cancer risk among firefighters? Led by postdoctoral fellow... Continue reading
Harvard research explores post-WWII rise in knee arthritis
August 14, 2017
The average American today is twice as likely to be diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis as in the years before World War II, Harvard scientists say. And the reasons are less clear than you might... Continue reading
Harvard offers Summer Explorations for area youngsters
August 14, 2017
On a beautiful, blue-sky day in late July, Ryan Dell sat on his bicycle alongside several other excited novice cyclists, eagerly waiting for the three words that would set them off across the... Continue reading
Harvard lecturer Paul Yoon on his new story collection ‘The Mountain’
August 14, 2017
This month, Paul Yoon begins his second year teaching fiction in Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. The son of South Korean immigrants, he is the author of the novel “Snow Hunters,” which won the... Continue reading