Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) — a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases — is credited with saving…

Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election thanks in large part to overwhelming support from one particular group of folks: white evangelicals. In fact, a whopping 81 percent of self-identified…

In 1802, Jacob Bigelow, the son of a farmer, entered Harvard at the age of 15 to study medicine. By 1818 he was appointed professor of materia medica at Harvard Medical…

Andrew Leon Hanna ’19, a Harvard Law School student and c0-founder of a Harvard Innovation Labs’ VIP startup, has won the 2018 Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal…

Master of public health students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gathered to display and discuss their field work at a poster session on Nov. 13, 2018 in…

The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard and the Novak Djokovic Foundation launched the Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship in 2016 in an effort to contribute science-based innovation in…

On Nov. 1, a group of incarcerated youth and staff from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) visited different Harvard University centers and Schools. “We wanted DYS youth and…

For the past 25 years, Harvard departments have worked with Phillips Brooks House to collect gifts during the holiday season for nearly two dozen community-based youth service programs in Boston,…

The promises of big data in health care are seemingly endless, but so are the challenges — poor data quality, byzantine medical codes, and the complexity of human genetics, to…

New initiatives, such as additional funding for winners, a new venue for finalists, and increased support for participants, are at the heart of efforts to continue to grow participation and…

Harvard is being recognized for its commitment to the biking community.  The University just received a Gold level, Bicycle Friendly University award, from the League of American Bicyclists.  The awards…

In the early 1970s, the Finnish province of North Karelia had one of the world’s highest death rates from heart disease. Responding to an appeal from the community, local authorities…

Sangeeta Bhatia knew in her teens that she wanted to work on improving human health and, after studying biomedical engineering at Brown University, took her first job at a pharmaceutical…

Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), will appear in the third and fourth episodes of the PBS series “Native…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Nov. 13) announced that Sanjeev Daga will become its next chief operating officer in February 2019. Daga, who most recently served as COO of Columbia…

In a ceremony last month in Oviedo, Spain, King Felipe VI presented Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel with the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.  The Asturias Awards,…

A new computer model that uses machine learning and de-identified and aggregated search and location data from logged-in Google users was significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when…

Meredith B. Rosenthal, the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next faculty chair of the…

“A Hundred Moons,” an Indian classical dance performance by Neha Bansal, was presented to a sold-out audience at the Harvard Ed Portal on Oct. 30. Bansal, a graduate student at…

“Exploring the Future of Russia’s Economy and Markets: Towards Sustainable Economic Development,” a unique book on Russia’s economy, is being  released by Emerald Publishing on Nov. 6. The book was…

The Rev. Richard Smallwood will participate in conversation with Professor Braxton Shelley and in song with the Kuumba Singers (Harvard), Inner Strength Gospel Choir (Boston University), and Third Day Gospel Choir (Tufts). The evening culminates…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research announces the opening of applications to the Lemann Brazil Research Fund as of Nov. 1. Applications are due by Jan. 22, 2019…

In reaction to the growing challenges posed by global environmental change, author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Myers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…

A new grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) to the Wyss Institute at Harvard University aims to improve the survival of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) by funding the…