In its inaugural Grid Fellowship cohort, Harvard Grid will support two postdoctoral fellows at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in a year-long translation immersion program. The Grid Fellowship is designed to train the next generation of technology leaders to solve big problems through science and technology innovations. Harvard Grid is a collaboration between SEAS…

From replacing a single tooth to addressing extensive dental damage, implant dentistry has become a groundbreaking option, giving people the chance to reclaim their smiles and improve their quality of life. Nearly 3 million individuals in the United States have dental implants, a number that is growing by 500,000 annually, according to the American Academy…

“Transformational” and “growth-oriented.” These are just two descriptions members of the Du Bois Scholars Program used to summarize their experience.   This summer, 20 rising college juniors and seniors from 12 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) joined Harvard College’s Summer Undergraduate Research Village as the first cohort of the Du Bois Scholars Program. Funded by Harvard College and…

Professor of Psychology Samuel J. Gershman is one of six academics to win the 2024 Schmidt Sciences Polymath award. Founded in 2021, the New York-based Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program recognizes risky, cross-disciplinary work that otherwise might be difficult to finance.  “My application described a broad new direction for research in my lab that started very recently,” shared Gershman, whose…

The Mittal Institute is excited to announce a new funding opportunity for faculty research on climate change in South Asia in the academic year 2024-2025.

The EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has appointed Denisse Arias as the inaugural director of the Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders — a visiting fellowship launched in April. In this pioneering role, Arias will guide efforts to support new and aspiring leaders of cradle-to-career place-based partnerships. Arias brings a wealth of…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2024 recipients of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS,…

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School today announced the appointment of six Resident Fellows who will join the IOP for the fall 2024 semester. The fellows bring diverse experience in politics, elected office, polling, journalism and economic development to address the challenges facing our country and world today. “We are thrilled to welcome…

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the successful completion of the third iteration of its Pathways program, an immersive and transformative initiative designed to provide high school students with hands-on laboratory experience. The program, formerly known as High School Lab Skills, concluded with a celebration breakfast held on Aug. 15, honoring the…

The Healthcare Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School has named Claire Morton as the 2024-2025 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman MD Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from the Grossman family, honors the life and legacy of Jerome H. Grossman, who dedicated…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs announced its 2024–2025 scholars and fellows of the Weatherhead Scholars Program (WSP). This year’s cohort comprises 20 members, including six postdoctoral fellows, five visiting scholars, and nine practitioner fellows. They represent diverse regions and disciplines, featuring peace and conflict specialists, career diplomats and public servants, and affiliates with a…

Each summer, the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) joins forces with Putney Pre-College to bring together passionate high school students from around the world for a Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health. The weeklong program trains students to become climate…

Harvard researchers have developed a technique for adding color-coded localization data for pinpointing different biomolecules to high-resolution images of a mouse brain. Publishing in Nature Communications, first author Xiaomeng Han and colleagues used glowing molecular probes that bind to specific proteins to create a colorful overlay for connectomic electron microscopy data. The combined data allowed…

Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Harvard University Asia Center. “I am delighted that Michael Puett has agreed to serve as director of the Asia Center,” said University interim Provost John F. Manning. “He is…

More than a thousand scholars, artists, and leaders came together in July in a historic meeting for the advancement of the field of Afro-Latin American Studies. “Never before had so many producers of antiracist knowledge in Latin America come together in an academic event, to share their research and their initiatives across multiple disciplines,” noted…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that its MBA Program has been reclassified to qualify as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree, effective this fall for the class of 2025 and onward. This change is in recognition of the addition of a course on data science and artificial intelligence for leaders in the first year Required…

At the recent NAACP Convention in Las Vegas, the storied Spingarn Medal was awarded to Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, the oldest and most continuous recognition conferred for outstanding achievements by Black…

For Mike Dillon M.P.H. ’23, there has never been a more crucial moment to address the public health crisis facing LGBTQ communities. LGBTQ individuals encounter significant challenges in accessing equitable and inclusive health care. Faced with discrimination, stigma, limited access to care— including gender-affirming care and reproductive care — and high rates of violence and…

The Kempner Institute announced today the appointments of Kianté Brantley, Yilun Du and Michael Albergo as Kempner Institute Investigators. All three researchers, who will also hold faculty positions at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), are leaders in the quickly-advancing field of intelligence.  “We are thrilled to welcome Kianté…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard University. The Blavatnik Fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies…

Thirty-nine mayors from 11 countries across five continents joined Harvard faculty and renowned management leaders in an immersive classroom experience this week to kick off the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. The yearlong program is designed to deliver research-backed learning for mayors and senior city leaders, helping close the gap in executive development for the…

Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative commit to increasing access to professional development for HBCU ELI’s community of fellows. In a landmark move of strategic collaboration, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) at Clark Atlanta University announces a partnership with Harvard University that underscores a shared commitment to cultivating and empowering…

The Harvard Climate Change and Health Collaborative hosted a second workshop on June 13-14 in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute’s new Scholarly Working Groups program. Building on the foundational work of the inaugural workshop last September, the two-day event brought together a consortium of Harvard faculty, researchers, and global public health leaders to…

As artificial intelligence surges, corporate directors face a set of urgent ethical considerations. What role can they play in fostering responsible practices for using AI in the workplace? Are they already using the bias-prone technology to sort through job applications? At the inaugural Directors’ AI Ethics Forum, leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors pondered these…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence today announced the names of 15 students chosen as the incoming 2024 cohort of Kempner Graduate Fellows. The 2024 recipients of the Kempner Graduate Fellowship are: Rachit Bansal, George Cai, Lukas Fesser, Sara Fish, Kexin (Cindy) Luo, Alex Meterez, Depen Morwani, Daniel Yutaka Sprague,…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of David Alvarez-Melis and Patrick Slade as associate faculty members.  Both Alvarez-Melis and Slade are current Harvard faculty members whose pioneering work in the fields of natural and artificial intelligence advances the Kempner Institute’s core scientific mission. The two…

The American Philosophical Society recently announced the selection of 37 new members, including five faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The five elected members have academic interests including gene mutations, affective forecasting, and the history of American music and culture. The newly elected members of the APS are: William…

Cholera, an ancient, yet treatable and preventable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths each year worldwide due to it. Despite these alarming numbers, cholera research does not always garner much attention. A recent…

Harvard geologist Paul F. Hoffman has been named a 2024 laureate of the Kyoto Prize. The Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus, Hoffman received the honor in recognition of his work in Earth evolution and plate tectonics. The Kyoto Prize recognizes Hoffman’s groundbreaking achievements in the “snowball Earth” global freezing theory, as well as his…