Tyler VanderWeele and Xihong Lin, faculty members at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, have both received prestigious awards from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), in honor of their outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The awards were presented on Aug. 2, 2017 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore.…

According to the Greater Boston Food Bank, 1 in 10 locals routinely don’t have enough to eat. In an effort to help address food inequality, Harvard began partnering with Food For Free, a Cambridge based nonprofit working to end chronic hunger by “recapturing fresh food that might otherwise be discarded” and ensuring that it finds…

If CO2 levels continue to rise as projected, the populations of 18 countries may lose more than 5 percent of their dietary protein by 2050 due to a decline in the nutritional value of rice, wheat, and other staple crops, according to new findings from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Researchers estimate that roughly an additional 150 million…

The Mahindra Humanities Center welcomes all Harvard graduate students to submit proposals to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Funding for the conference will be available up to the amount of $8,000. The Barker Center’s Thompson Room has been reserved on Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, 2018. Proposals should consist of a one- to…

The Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement recently teamed up with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to offer a free salary negotiation workshop at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The Office’s goal is to train and empower 85,000 women by 2021 to confidently and successfully negotiate for salary and benefits packages and…

Australia-Harvard Fellowship is an initiative of the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation, a long-standing nationwide philanthropic organisation based in Sydney. It promotes learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia, and reinforces existing academic networks at mid-career and senior levels. Begun in 2004, the A-HF program has already granted some 60 Fellowships derived from the Foundation’s…

Harvard will offer a Master of Science (SM) degree in Data Science beginning in fall of 2018. The new degree, under the joint academic leadership of the faculties of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS),…

Music, painting, and storytelling came together at the Ed Portal during “At the Still Point: medicine from the inside,” an event co-sponsored with the Harvard Medical School‘s Arts & Humanities Initiative that was the latest in an ongoing series of Ed Portal programming on the intersection of art and science. Dreamed up by musician and…

The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) awarded eight Spark Grants with support of up to 15,000 designed to help “spark” promising teaching and learning projects. Awardees will: Develop hybrid activities for the classroom. Jennifer Lerner (HKS) will design in-class and online activities to improve student decision making and increase classroom engagement. Engage foreign…

The Government Performance Lab (GPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced today that it has selected three states and four cities to receive technical assistance developing performance improvement projects that apply Pay for Success (PFS) principles to core agency services. The selected jurisdictions are Arizona, Chicago, Florida, Los Angeles, Maryland, New York City, and Seattle.…

Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) has announced that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” will serve as Visiting Fellows this summer and fall. “For several years, ‘Morning Joe’ has been at the forefront of covering millennials in politics, and at Harvard they will engage directly with the young people…

Maj. Gen. William E. Rapp has been named military affairs lecturer and director of the National Security Fellows (NSF) program at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Rapp is currently Commandant of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a position he assumed in 2014. Prior to that appointment, Rapp served as Commanding General for National…

The Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative has selected its undergraduate Mary Gordon Roberts Thesis Fellows for summer 2017. These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to students who will be conducting thesis research this summer, and include grants to enable this research. Support for these fellowships have been provided by Mary Gordon Roberts, the Gordon…

The Mind Brain Behavior graduates of the Class of 2017 were recognized at a ceremony held on Class Day at the Harvard Faculty Club. The event included remarks by MBB Standing Committee co-chair Florian Engert (Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS), MBB Initiative Co-Director Alfonso Caramazza (Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, FAS), MBB…

Harvard Extension School instructors Kevin Madigan, Marcus Stern, and Evan Kleiman have been awarded the Shattuck Award for their excellence in teaching. Established by the Harvard Extension School in memory of Petra T. Shattuck, a distinguished and dedicated Harvard Extension teacher who died in 1988, these prizes are presented annually to honor outstanding teaching. Kevin…

A new report released by the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), based at the University of Sydney and Harvard University, scrutinizes whether support for populism is rising or whether it has stalled, comparing elections in the United States, the Netherlands, France, the UK, and Germany. The EIP is directed Pippa Norris, the Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer…