Current Events and Campus Life
Students present projects at HILT Education Innovation Showcase
April 17, 2019
Students present 30 projects at inaugural Education Innovation Showcase at Harvard. Continue reading
Harvard Graduate School of Design names new dean
April 17, 2019
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design. Continue reading
Finalists named in Harvard’s annual Innovation Challenge
April 17, 2019
Twenty would-be companies in four categories have been named finalists in the President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual “call to action, innovation, and entrepreneurship” at Harvard. Continue reading
Harvard Gaga dance course teaches students to listen to their bodies
April 17, 2019
Harvard community members who’ve taken Gaga dance courses have found the technique helps them let go of external pressures and focus their energy inward, achieving self-care and healing. Continue reading
12 faculty honored as newest members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 17, 2019
Twelve Harvard faculty are among the more than 200 individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Continue reading
Harvard’s Ronald Ferguson explores how to raise successful children
April 16, 2019
A Q&A with Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard, about his new book on how to raise successful children based on interviews with highly accomplished young people... Continue reading
Harvard neurologist examines the middle class through photojournalism
April 16, 2019
Neurology Professor Julian Fisher explores Massachusetts to tell stories of middle-class Americans through photography. Continue reading
Two Harvard students selected as Hertz Fellows
April 16, 2019
Harvard students Noah Golowich and Alex Atanasov have been selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, joining 199 previous Harvard students who have received the honor since 1964. Continue reading
Harvard scientists develop way to identify topological materials
April 16, 2019
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up... Continue reading
Wyss Institute lays some groundwork to protect environment with robots
April 16, 2019
The Wyss Institute has developed a sheet pile driving robot, Romu, that works in uneven terrain to build metal walls that can act as dams, retaining walls, or building foundations. Continue reading