The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative (H&LS) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Reparative Partnership Program, which supports innovative and impactful proposals addressing systemic inequities affecting people who have been harmed by slavery, particularly in the Cambridge and Boston communities.  “I am excited about the opportunities these grant partnerships will…

Black ecology celebrates the convergence of environmental and racial justice movements to uplift historically marginalized communities. At the Ninth annual Scholarship and Social Justice Conference, several scholars spoke about how their own personal and academic journeys influenced their work in this emerging field. Centering Black voices in discussions about public lands and decision-making processes is…

As a child growing up in the 1970s in Southern California, Marcos Luna was acutely aware of inequality issues and discrimination against the Latino community.  He witnessed “blockbusting,” where real estate agents would tell white homeowners that minorities were moving into the neighborhood to scare them into selling their homes cheaply. Luna’s community also struggled with…

Recent Harvard Ph.D. graduate Soon Wei Daniel Lim was one of 32 early career researchers named a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow. Advised by Professor Federico Capasso at Harvard, Lim’s thesis in applied physics was titled “Sculpting the dark: Singularity engineering with metasurfaces.”   As a Schmidt Science Fellow, Lim will pivot from physics to biological…

Time magazine has named Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the faculty director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, to the inaugural  2024 Time 100 Health list in recognition for her groundbreaking contributions to global health. The Time 100…

Fourteen Harvard faculty are among the 250 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. “We honor these artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors for their accomplishments and for the curiosity, creativity, and courage required to reach new heights,” said academy President David Oxtoby. “We invite these…

Regular visits to the dentist are not only good for a routine examination and cleaning, but also for the detection of oral cancer — cancer that develops in areas in and around the mouth, such as the tongue, mouth lining, lips, gums, or in the back of the throat. Approximately 58,500 people in the U.S.…

Five Harvard professors were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year, drawing support for projects that range from the political to the literary. Tracy K. Smith, professor of English and of African and African American Studies and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, won a fellowship for her work examining a variety…

Eight Harvard faculty are among the 502 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2023 class of fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. AAAS is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. This latest class is comprised of scientists, engineers, and innovators…

Harvard University Dining Services’ (HUDS) Sous Chef Ameer Wahid, part of the culinary team at Harvard Law School, earned a prestigious American Culinary Federation (ACF) gold medal at the National Association of College & University Food Service (NACUFS) regional conference on April 2. Wahid had one hour to prepare a nutritionally balanced plate using three…

In December 1933, Rosa “Kaethe” Goldberg Fromm entered Gestapo headquarters determined to persuade authorities to free her husband, Walther, who had been arrested for signing a petition. Three years later, Kaethe, Walther, and their 3-year-old son, Guenther, dodged bullets at a border crossing as they fled Nazi Germany, eventually landing in New York City to…

Harvard’s Center for Brain Science has received a gift from the NTT Research Foundation to establish the Center for Brain Science-NTT Fellowship Program. The two-year gift, renewable for up to three more years, creates a fund that supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence, an emerging field that uses physics to tackle fundamental questions…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS’s graduating students,…

In a viewpoint in JAMA Health Forum, Harvard University Vice Provost of Special Projects Sara Bleich and her co-authors provide an overview of how legacies of slavery connect to structural racism and show up in healthcare and beyond, demonstrating the many implications in the healthcare system. And while considerable work is underway by colleges and…

For the first time, 22 Colombian women, prominent in areas as diverse as science, social innovation, community and political activism, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and the private and financial sector, were honored during Harvard Women’s Month. The event, which took place on March 30, was spearheaded by the Harvard Colombian Student Association, the Harvard College Women’s Center,…

When Neil Sullivan — a nonverbal individual with profound autism and a complex array of medical conditions — aged out of pediatric care and began seeing adult-care physicians, some doctors dismissed behaviors that they thought were related to his autism rather than to his health, said his mother, Maura Sullivan. It was frustrating for both…

When Tong “Max” Chen ’04, M.B.A. ’08, J.D. ’10 arrived on Harvard’s campus from his home in China as a 19-year-old, he was thousands of miles away from his relatives, but he soon found a second family.  Chen joined the Harvard College Host Family Program as a first-year student, where he was matched with Dan…

The EdRedesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has announced the launch of its new Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders, a tuition-free, 18-month visiting fellowship for senior leaders working in the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field.   Children and families in communities across the country experience complex, multi-generational, and substantial disparities in…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research in partnership with the Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships is pleased to announce an opportunity for collaborative research projects related to Generative AI, between Harvard faculty and undergraduate students over the summer of 2024. The goal of this funding opportunity is to foster collaboration…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the results of the 2024 competition for awards from the Lemann Brazil Research Fund.  “We are grateful to all our applicants, who demonstrated both the breadth of Harvard’s research interests in Brazil and…

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Klarman Hall was packed to capacity Thursday evening, with spectators there to support the 12 student finalist teams competing in the finale of the 27th annual HBS New Venture Competition . At stake was $225,000 in cash plus in-kind prizes to fund the startups. The top prize in the Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track was…

Harvard Business School has announced a new cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2024 spring semester. The Executive Fellows program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners — many of whom are alumni — to enhance teaching and learning at the School. Fellows partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business…

When it comes to nurturing their young, mother chimpanzees go the extra mile, according to a new study. Using 10 years of observational data on wild chimpanzees, researchers found that when food gets scarce, the adults put mutual play aside and focus on survival.  But in the meantime, mother chimps continue to be their offspring’s…

The Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently hosted its first schoolwide Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting an extensive variety of student ventures emerging from the School, the inaugural event was led by Faculty Chair Julia Austin and faculty advisers Lindsay Hyde, Allison Mnookin, and Christina Wallace. Select student teams delivered five-minute pitches, others presented posters, and a…

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Harvard Business School is delighted to announce the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, which features a sculpture by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, one of the few women working in monumental sculpture. Ursula von Rydingsvard (née Karoliszyn) was born in 1942…

When Harry Bastermajian inherited a collection of notes from Sir Hamilton Gibb in 2016, he said it was like viewing a time capsule. He had recently become executive director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at the time, and the notes from the prominent Islamic studies professor who taught at Harvard in the…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Michael S. Chae ’90 has been elected to join its Board of Directors. Chae’s term will begin at the start of the upcoming fiscal year, on July 1. Formed in 1974, HMC invests the University’s endowed funds and related financial assets. Distributions from these funds have grown to…