Current Events and Campus Life
Understanding how the intestine replaces and repairs itself
July 14, 2017
Researchers at Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School have identified a previously unknown mechanism that plays an important role in the regeneration... Continue reading
Remembering S. Allen Counter
July 13, 2017
S. Allen Counter, the founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and a noted neurophysiologist, educator, and ethnographer, died on July 12. “Harvard has... Continue reading
Taking cells out to the movies with new CRISPR technology
July 12, 2017
Researchers use expensive machinery to develop ways to harness DNA as a synthetic raw material to store large amounts of digital information outside of living cells. But what if they could... Continue reading
New director for Harvard University Press
July 12, 2017
Harvard University Provost Alan Garber today announced the appointment of George Andreou as director of the Harvard University Press, beginning in September. Andreou, currently vice president and... Continue reading
Cancer-killing viruses may deliver stem cells to metastasized brain tumors
July 11, 2017
Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) may have discovered a way to kill tumor cells that have metastasized to the brain. The team has... Continue reading
Harvard launches search for new president
July 11, 2017
The Harvard Corporation has launched the search for a new president of Harvard University, in light of Drew Faust’s recent announcement that she will step down at the end of the 2017-18 academic... Continue reading
Viewing the site of Thoreau’s inspiration, and his works at Houghton Library
July 11, 2017
Lawrence Buell was a teenager when he first read “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau’s homage to simple living and the wonders of nature. Buell was 17 and on the edge of manhood,... Continue reading
Satisfaction with Medicaid expansion
July 11, 2017
Enrollees in Medicaid reported in a nationwide survey that they’re largely satisfied with the health care they receive under the program, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of... Continue reading
Whole brain insights in Harvard findings
July 10, 2017
Scientists appear closer than ever to unlocking the black box that is the brain, and they’re doing it with the help of a fish less than half an inch long. Led by Jeff Lichtman, the Jeremy R.... Continue reading
Research may provide the tools to create better schools
July 7, 2017
Just as clinical trials are critical to enhancing human health and medicine, field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education, according to a new paper published in the... Continue reading