The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announced its newest cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Medal honorees on Sept. 26. The eight Hutchins Center Honors recipients will be honored for “contributions to African and African American culture and the life of the mind.” “The Hutchins Center recognizes the eight 2023 Du Bois Medalists…

Nine new senior fellows have joined the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School. At the center, they will work on individual research projects addressing critical issues at the intersection of business and government. They’ll also hold study groups and, in general, contribute to understanding the rapidly evolving relationship between business…

Jeffrey Abbott is a logical guy. As a graduate student and then a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard, he was already several rungs up the academic ladder. Next rung: professorship. But, after he met fellow Harvard graduate student Vince (Wenxuan) Wu, he decided to leap to an entirely different ladder. In 2019, Abbott and Wu launched…

With responsibilities that ranged from creating promotional content for University outreach efforts, to assisting with laboratory experiments, 43 Cambridge and Boston teens gained valuable work experience and exposure to a variety of possible career paths by working in more than 20 Harvard offices and labs this summer through Harvard’s annual Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP).…

Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, and Google’s Bard have rapidly emerged as the most talked-about topic in technology, provoking a range of reactions — from excitement to fear — and sparking conversations about their role in higher education. In July, Harvard announced its initial guidelines for the use of generative…

Harvard Athletics has announced the renaming of its men’s basketball locker room for Head Coach Tommy Amaker. The first-of-its-kind honor, effective upon Amaker’s future retirement, was made possible by a generous donation from the Shutzer family as part of the recent Lavietes Pavilion renovation.  “The locker room is one of the more sacred and meaningful…

The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) and the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) recently announced the inaugural recipients of the 2023 Glenn Foundation Discovery Awards, including Ya-Chieh Hsu, the Alvin & Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Harvard University, and a principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.…

Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has been named a 2023 Citation Laureate by the analytics company Clarivate. Citation Laureates honor researchers who are considered likely to win the Nobel…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that Rupal Gadhia, MBA ’04, will be the next managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. In her role, Gadhia will partner with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including current HBS students, alumni, faculty, and administrators. She will oversee an admissions process that aims to deliver a high-quality, MBA…

For the first time, researchers have counted the precise number of US health care regulators who leave for jobs in private industry. A new study, titled “The Revolving Door in Health Care Regulation” and published in the journal Health Affairs, found nearly one-third of appointees to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leave…

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association recently announced the recipients of the 2023 Alumni Awards. The awards will be presented during this year’s Alumni Weekend, which takes place September 28-30. Alumni Award of Merit Megan Murray, MPH ’97, SD ’01 One of the world’s leading experts on tuberculosis, Murray conducted studies that changed…

Internationally renowned scholar of democracy and state-building in Europe, Daniel Ziblatt, has been named the new director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Ziblatt, who serves as Harvard’s Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, will begin his three-year term on January 2, 2024. He succeeds Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch…

Hundreds gathered on an unusually warm fall day to celebrate the 50th year of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The daylong event included guided tours of the CfA at 60 Garden St., and a celebratory lunch outside the Harvard Science Center. One of the world’s largest astrophysical research organizations in the world…

Ten doctoral candidates from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been selected for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. The merit-based award provides financial support to PhD candidates pursuing scholarship outside the U.S. “The Fulbright-Hays is one of the most prestigious fellowships for graduate students conducting doctoral research,”…

Search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean do not lead to more migrant crossings, a new study co-authored by Stefano Iacus, director of Data Science and Product Research at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, revealed. The findings, which were published in Scientific Reports in August, challenged “pull effect” claims that state- and private-led search-and-rescue encourage…

Talia Konkle, professor of psychology and leading vision scientist, has been named faculty director of the Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative. “I am delighted that Talia Konkle has agreed to serve as the next director of the Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative,” said Vice Provost for Research John Shaw, whose office oversees MBB along…

Theresa Lungu loved walking on the bumpy dirt road to the tiny municipal library in Luanshya, almost four miles from her home in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. She was only 7 but could borrow two books at a time. “Three Billy Goats Gruff,” “Nancy Drew Mysteries,” “Treasure Island,” she gathered just about any book…

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) recently announced two additions to its senior leadership team. Kathy G. Niknejad will serve as chief medical officer (CMO) and physician in chief, and Kimberly Eng will serve as deputy executive director and chief administrative officer.  HUHS is a multispecialty practice that provides medical and mental health care to the…

Since 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association has bestowed the HAA Awards to distinguished alumni in recognition of their outstanding service to Harvard University through leadership and engagement activities. Continuing this tradition, the HAA has announced six recipients of the 2023 HAA Awards: Michael R. Alderete ’79; Elinor B. Balka ’62; Guy L. Fish ’81; Alice…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University announces the appointment of Kanaka Rajan as its first faculty member hired within the recently launched institute. As a founding faculty member at the Kempner,  Rajan will serve as an institute investigator. Rajan will also have a dual appointment, serving as…

Tagalog language courses will be taught at Harvard for the first time this fall, along with Indonesian and Thai. The Harvard University Asia Center and the Department of South Asian Studies have announced the hire of two new preceptors to teach Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia. Elementary and intermediate Filipino (Tagalog) courses will be taught by…

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of seven Resident Fellows and two Visiting Fellows who will join the IOP for the fall 2023 semester. The fellows bring diverse experience in politics, elected office, global diplomacy, judiciary affairs, and journalism to address the challenges facing our country and world today.…

First-year Bimba Carpenter lifted her artwork from the table. Moments earlier, she had finished a design, carefully rendered in puff paint on a rectangle of fabric, featuring laughing people and the text, “Just laugh!” But now the paint was accidentally smeared. The lesson? Mistakes will be made, and we may as well laugh about them.…

Live streaming of Sunday services at the Memorial Church will kick off when fall term opens this September, capping off a two-year renovation project of the church’s audio-visual system. The Sept. 3 service represents a significant step in the history of the Memorial Church. At 11 a.m. Sunday, a new array of remote video cameras…

Australia-Harvard Fellowships 2024 program is accepting applications through Oct. 9. Offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia, the fellowships are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard who have a persuasive plan for collaborative work in Australia with its best bioscience researchers and educators. The…

Do you have an idea for an initiative that will embrace and promote the importance of mental health and well-being for students? Consider applying to the Wellbeing Project Fund. The Wellbeing Project Fund came out of the University’s Student Mental Health Initiative, which kicked off last year to share resources and support a Harvard culture…

A new crop of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students got their official welcome to the School when Orientation kicked off on Aug. 21. The week’s worth of events began at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, where 488 new students from 58 countries were welcomed with School swag, a light breakfast, and…