“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 the Harvard Kennedy School, shared her love of dance with the Ed Portal community. At the start of the program, the audience was encouraged to…

“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 edited by Bruno S. Sergi, Harvard University Davis Center’s associate, scientific director of International Center for Emerging Markets Research. Contributors to the volume are Boris…

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 with a performance of Smallwood’s “Total Praise” at Sanders Theatre from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Nov. 19. For four decades, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and…

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 and must be submitted via the Harvard University Funding Portal. Established in 2016 from a generous gift of the Lemann Foundation, the fund is intended…

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 principal research scientist and Planetary Health Alliance director, have launched the Constellation Project. This new collaboration includes the Planetary Health Alliance, Harvard Divinity School, the…

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 development of a human Airway Chip model of a CF lung that can be used to study the bacterial infections and inflammation that often lead…

The Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science is pleased to announce the theDataMap Visualization Contest. The contest challenges participants to use data from the Lab’s online portal to show how personal medical and mobile data is shared between companies, promoting awareness of data privacy issues through creative and innovative visualizations.…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its 2018 Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners’ “monumental,” “once-in-a-generation” European headquarters for Bloomberg LP, a project engineered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) Hanif Kara and his firm AKTII. The Stirling Prize is RIBA’s most prestigious award, given annually to a new building…

“The Plant Collections Network (PCN) of the American Public Gardens Association recently bestowed national accreditation status to two genera in the Arnold Arboretum’s collections: Forsythia and Ginkgo. Along with six previously recognized genera — Acer (maple), Carya (hickory), Fagus (beech), Stewartia, Syringa (lilac), and Tsuga (hemlock) — the Arboretum’s eight national collections represent some of…

When it comes to high-temperature superconductors, “high” is a relative term. In the field of superconductivity, “high temperature” means anything that can still be superconductive over 30 degrees Kelvin (K), or a balmy -405 degrees Fahrenheit (F). The first high-temperature superconductor was discovered in 1986, in ceramic compounds of copper and oxygen known as cuprates.…

Witches, murder, intrigue — all will be revealed in the fog. Or will it? On Oct. 21 at 5 p.m., Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) conjures Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” amid the shifting atmosphere of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog installation at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. “Fog x Macbeth” will be a free performance of an abridged version…

The Practice Platform at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (HGSD) presents “Talking Practice,” the first podcast series to feature in-depth interviews with leading design practitioners from around the world on the ways in which architects, landscape architects, designers, and planners articulate design imagination through practice. Hosted by Grace La, Professor of Architecture and Chair of…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research awardees who, together, establish a cross-University community of early-career science scholars. “This is fantastic recognition for promising scientists at the start of their careers” said Rick McCullough, vice provost for research and professor…

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming Harvard research institute Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR, the digital library for research and teaching that is part of the non-profit ITHAKA, are launching, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Plant Humanities Initiative: a digital tool with related…

As usual, M.B.A. students attending Harvard Business School (HBS) this year who are interested in entrepreneurship or looking to create and even launch a startup of their own will be able to take advantage of plenty of resources on the HBS campus, including more than 30 faculty members and this year’s cohort of 21 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at the…

The Harvard Innovation Labs, an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in exploring innovation and entrepreneurship, today announced that it has selected 13 ventures to participate in the inaugural Launch Lab X accelerator program. More than 260 ventures from 36 countries applied to Launch Lab X. The cohort is comprised of startups from…

Schooner finishes its research mission, offers onboard visits, and partners with Radcliffe Institute for science lecture After more than two years at sea, the research schooner Tara docked in Boston for a weeklong visit. During the Tara Pacific Expedition, which began in May 2016, the vessel has traveled more than 62,000 miles, studying 40 archipelagos…

Morning Prayers will start 15 minutes early on Oct. 1, marking the beginning of a new schedule for a piece of enduring Harvard tradition that takes place in Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel before classes each day. The short service of choral music, Psalm readings, prayers, and daily guest homily will now be held from 8:30…

Applications are now being accepted for the Spring 2019 the Climate Solutions Living Lab course and are due no later than Oct. 15. The highly interactive, multi-disciplinary course brings together graduate students from across Harvard to study and design practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at Harvard, in neighboring communities, elsewhere in United States, and…

Conventional lithium niobite modulators, the longtime workhorse of the optoelectronic industry, may soon go the way of the vacuum tube and floppy disc. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a new method to fabricate and design integrated, on-chip modulators 100 times smaller and 20 times more efficient than…

A range of issues relevant to health in both Thailand and the U.S. — including medical education, maternal health, hypertension and stroke risk, and the role of policy and persuasion in changing health behaviors — were discussed at a recent symposium aimed at promoting connections between the two countries in public health and medicine. The…

The 2018 EASD–Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence has been awarded to Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The award is given annually to an internationally recognized researcher who has contributed significantly to…