John Holdren, former national science adviser to President Barack Obama, will rejoin the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy. The appointment, announced by HKS Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf, began Feb. 15, 2017. Holdren has spent the past eight years as the senior adviser to Obama on…

On March 3-4 at 8 p.m., the Fromm Players at Harvard assemble one of the nation’s foremost new music groups, Talea Ensemble, for two free concerts, “Songs Found in Dream,” in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall on the Harvard University campus. The Friday program features George Lewis’s “Mnemosis,” Gerard Grisey’s “Talea” and James Dillon’s “New…

Steven Beshear, former Governor of Kentucky, and Gina McCarthy, former Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are on campus at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health this spring as Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellows. Under the Senior Leadership Fellows Program, those who have recently served in top-level positions in government,…

In partnership with the Harvard University Office of the Executive Vice President, Harvard Campus Services, Harvard Planning Harvard, and the Zone 3 initiative, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is presenting a public exhibition of the five finalists in the GSD’s design-build competition currently underway, a project that calls for the planning, design, and…

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is the winner of the 2017 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. She was awarded the prize for her contributions to the understanding of how pheromones control brain function and behavior and the characterization…

Jennifer A. Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesand core faculty member of the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Lewis’ research focuses on the design and fabrication of functional, structural and biological materials. Her…

The Harvard Graduate Student Council announced it’s #WeAre1H Grassroots Campaign in conjunction with the Harvard Extension Student Association for the 7th annual “Masquerade Ball” taking place on March 4 at the Sheraton in Boston. The campaign highlights inclusivity and diversity across the 13 Harvard Schools through multiple grassroots and content creation efforts on campus and…

The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine are delighted to announce that the Arcadia Fund of London awarded a $495,000 grant to their Historical Ice Core Project. The interdisciplinary project’s aim is to study the history of climate change, atmospheric pollution…

Harvard has been named a Best Workplace for Commuters for the fourth consecutive year. On Jan. 31, 2017, the Center for Urban Transportation Research announced the employers who earned the designation by meeting the National Standard of Excellence criteria with their employee commuter benefits. Harvard was one of 24 colleges and universities to receive the national…

Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). The winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 2, 2017, at the Kennedy School. Jorge Ramos, Emmy-winning anchorman…

Samir Mitragotri, a leading chemical- and bio-engineer who develops new techniques and materials for treating conditions such as diabetes, cancer and bleeding disorders, will join the faculty of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He is currently the Mellichamp Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University…

Attendees of the Harvard Ed Portal’s recent Learning Xchange “Health and Wellness for the New Year” were given the opportunity to learn about nutrition, sleep, physical exercise, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including strategies on how to understanding nutrition labels, make plans for decreasing sedentary time and participate in a meditation exercise. The Charles River…

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) has selected its spring 2017 class of Visiting and Resident Fellows. A list is available at http://bit.ly/2017SpringFellows. “This class of Fellows boasts deep insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of national and global challenges. They will bring this range of perspectives and deep subject knowledge to benefit…

The Harvard Art Museums are pleased to announce the appointment of Makeda Best as the new Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, effective Jan. 17, 2017. Best is currently assistant professor in visual studies at the California College of the Arts, specializing in the history of photography. She has also played an ongoing role as a…

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its spring 2017 fellows. “Following one of the most remarkable presidential campaigns in American history, our spring fellows will bring true insight to the turbulent times our politics and our media face,” said Center…

Several Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni and one current student have been named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, celebrating “the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers” in fields ranging from education to law and policy. Among this year’s honorees are Kate Aitken, M.P.P. ’16, M.B.A. ’16, chief of staff for federal…

Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), has been named among the 100 Most Influential Africans for 2016 by New African magazine. Juma, whose research and writing focus on science, technology and the environment, is considered a top thought leader in relation to African agriculture and economic development.…

Each year, as the hectic holiday season comes to a close, the team at Crimson Catering gathers to have a team celebration. Typically, that includes an ornament swap, with team members bringing a single decoration to exchange with colleagues. This year, notes Amy Goodrich, general manager for Crimson Catering, “Our team donated toys for the victims of…

This year’s Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Awards Ceremony, an annual tradition co-hosted by Harvard’s Japanese Language Program and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, honored a record number of students for achievements in Japanese language and humanities. The ceremony brought together an audience of over fifty attendees last Friday to celebrate the…

In landmark action to signal a renewed commitment to civil and effective government, freshman members of Congress have issued a statement prompted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Bipartisan Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress promising an effort toward collaboration and cooperation in solving the issues facing the nation. The 13…

The Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) at Harvard University announced the selection of 46 ALI Fellows to take part in its intensive, multi-disciplinary program. ALI taps the experience of a socially conscious generation of accomplished leaders and provides them with tools to address complex challenges. These challenges often have multifaceted political and technical dimensions that cannot…

These new papers include exploration of the challenges of defining hate speech, assessment of efforts to address racist speech online in South America, and consideration of the legal foundations of harmful speech regulation in India. The Harmful Speech Online project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce a…

Road trip! This fall, four researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston hopped into a 32-foot-long RV and began motoring down the East Coast in order to meet with 51 participants from the Nurses’ Health Studies and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Their aim was to conduct neurological…

Aging is a key risk factor for a variety of devastating, chronic diseases, yet the biological factors that influence when and how rapidly cells deteriorate over time remain largely unknown. Now, for the first time, a research team led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has linked the function of a core component…