The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Micha Winkler Thomas as their new deputy director. Winkler Thomas will serve in a senior leadership position, working alongside the director, and will oversee several of the museums’ administrative divisions. A leader in the museum, government, nonprofit, and cultural sectors, Winkler Thomas brings to the museums her extensive experience…

Life Sciences Research Foundation has announced funding for 18 early career postdoctoral researchers in all areas of life sciences, including two from Harvard. These researchers will receive funding over the next three years as they investigate questions surrounding human health and disease. Diego Pacheco Pinedo was awarded for a proposal titled “Neural circuits underlying feedback…

The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that it has named Sherry Yang as the 2023-2024 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from the Grossman family, honors the life and legacy of Grossman, who dedicated his career to strengthening…

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local high school students to experience the world of cutting-edge research. The department celebrated the success of the program with a breakfast event on Aug. 17…

Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Setti Warren has announced the appointment of Morgan Brown as the new executive director of the IOP.   Brown brings to the role a deep commitment to public service and civic engagement, as well as a dedication to the mission and values of the IOP. Brown ’06, M.P.A. ’18, was…

A new lactation room accessible to the entire Harvard community has opened at 1414 Massachusetts Ave. The tranquil fourth-floor space, a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Work/Life, is part of a broader effort to reimagine physical campus resources to accommodate a new, flexible way of working that became…

A group of faculty led by Jason Beckfield, the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, gathered last week for the first of three pilot retreats organized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Office of Undergraduate Education and the FAS Dean’s Office. The two-day brainstorm and professional development opportunity focused on developing curricula in…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Mitra Abbaspour as their new Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the museums’ Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, which oversees the collection of art from 1901 to the present day. A respected veteran in the arts field with over 20 years of experience, Abbaspour…

Harvard Ph.D. candidate Chrystel Oloukoï has been awarded an inaugural Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the art world. Oloukoï, who is completing a Ph.D. in African American Studies, is one of two emerging cultural critics of color who received the award this year. Oloukoï is an art writer, researcher, artist, and…

Joonho Lee, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut working in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemistry. The Blavatnik Awards…

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property (IP) law scholar, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS).  “I am delighted that Ruth Okediji has agreed to serve as the next director of the Center for African Studies,” said…

“I learned that at my age I have a lot of power, that I can make my voice heard,” said Iffah Merchant, a 15-year-old from Columbus, Georgia. “Now, I know just how impactful I can be.” That was a key takeaway from students at the third Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health this July…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced the 2023 recipients of its three fellowship programs: the Harvard Global Health Institute Climate and Health Burke Fellowship supports scholarly research at the important intersection of climate change and global health, an up-and-coming, transdisciplinary area of study; the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Global Health Fellowship provides funding…

Laura Bellamy ’13 will be the next Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey, and  Jenny Rohn has been named Harvard softball head coach, Harvard Athletics announced this week. For both coaches, their new roles mark a return to Cambridge. Bellamy remains one of Harvard’s best goaltenders in its 45-year history. She holds…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Laure Marest as their new Damarete Associate Curator of Ancient Coins — one of the few numismatic positions based at a U.S. university museum. Marest will lead the charge in rethinking the presentation of the museums’ sizable collection of ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and other coins, as well as…

China, India, Indonesia, Uganda, and Vietnam are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies for the coming decade, according to researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. The new growth projections presented in the Atlas of Economic Complexity include the first detailed look at 2021 trade data, which reveal continued disruptions from the uneven…

Growing up, Shana Grant knew that she wanted to pursue a health-related career, so she set her sights on the path that she was most familiar with — becoming a doctor. But once in college, she found that the idea of practicing medicine didn’t feel quite right. “I just didn’t know how to express my…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to work closely with leading biotech industry and…

Malcolm McClain, M.B.A./M.P.P.  ’23, has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following graduation so he can work with, learn from, and make a difference in a growing business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in…

The Family Van, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated mobile community health program, has been serving the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston for three decades. In addition to bringing medical services to the community, the van now provides mental health support for clients as well. Healthy Roads, which was launched in 2021, offers free…

For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to unravel the sequence of the human genome, the precise recipe of everyone’s DNA. That has led to incredible advances in discovering genes responsible for countless diseases. But within the last five to seven years, new and more sophisticated research tools have emerged. Known as single-cell…

As cities find themselves on the frontlines of addressing increasingly global challenges, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced on July 17 the seventh class of 40 mayors and 80 senior municipal leaders from nine countries and six continents who will participate in the yearlong professional management training program. Established by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard Kennedy…

Twelve professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history or art, and for their notable publications. The 2023 award recipients are: Josiah Blackmore, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature…

EdRedesign, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), has named Rob Watson to the newly created position of deputy director to support EdRedesign’s expanding footprint in the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field. Watson had served as EdRedesign’s director for Partnerships and Community Impact since June 2021. Watson is also a secondary lecturer in education…

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Jingru (Cyan) Cheng the winner of the 2023 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research. Her project, “Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift,” focuses on the economic, cultural, and ecological impacts of sand mining and…

The American Sociological Association has recognized two Harvard professors for publishing significant journal articles last year. Assistant Professor of Sociology Christina J. Cross and Professor of Sociology David S. Pedulla are winners of the ASA Family Section’s 2023 Article of the Year Award, designed to celebrate major contributions to the field of family sociology. Cross…

On July 1, 1973, the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory signed an agreement to become the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). The CfA has been responsible for some of the biggest discoveries in astrophysics in the past 50 years and is poised to be at the vanguard throughout the 21st…

Harvard graduate student Vaibhav Mohanty is among the 15 doctoral students named 2023 Hertz Fellows. Founded in 1957, the John and Fannie Hertz Foundation accelerates solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, from enhancing national security to improving human health. Through the Hertz Fellowship, the foundation identifies the nation’s most promising young innovators and disruptors…

On June 17, the rain held off long enough so transit drivers from colleges and universities across the region could compete in the Collegiate Bus Road’eo which featured a lineup of 100 percent electric shuttle buses. The course was constructed at the Harvard Business School parking area. Sixteen professional drivers, who typically shuttle students, faculty,…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of Boaz Barak, Samuel Gershman, Susan Murphy, and Marinka Zitnik as associate faculty members. The four new appointees are current Harvard faculty members whose pioneering work advances the Kempner Institute’s scientific mission of studying the intersection…