Harvard Extension Entrepreneurship and Real Estate Association and Harvard Graduate Council are inviting you to celebrate the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day 2016 on campus of Harvard University on Saturday, Nov. 19. Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) is a global initiative with the mission to celebrate, support and empower women in business worldwide, which was initiated in 2014 by the WED Organization…

Exactly 50 years ago, on Nov. 4, 1966, a devastating flood swept through the city of Florence, destroying and causing significant damage to much of the city’s artistic patrimony. As soon as news of the disaster reached the United States, concerned scholars of Italian art and culture leapt into action to help save the precious artistic…

A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 28 percent. Clinton captured 49 percent of likely young voters’ support while Trump received 21 percent in a four-way race. Gary Johnson garnered 14 percent and Jill Stein received 5 percent, with 11 percent remaining undecided. Clinton…

Peter Berman, professor of the practice of global health systems and economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received the 2016 Carl Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association (APHA). Berman is a health economist with more than 40 years of experience in research, policy analysis…

Nicholas McGegan — long hailed as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent) and “an expert in 18th-century style” (The New Yorker) — is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. On Thursday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, he conducts Sherezade…

Open enrollment for people buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act begins Nov. 1, 2016 and runs through Jan. 31, 2017. A major change this year will be increased rates; premiums for the most common “Silver” plans will jump an average of 22 percent. Katherine Swartz, professor of health policy and economics, talked about the…

From helping to launch a nutrition program in Tanzanian villages to learning how the World Health Organization (WHO) develops global policies, eight Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students spent this past summer getting a taste of real-world public health. They all were awarded travel grants from the Maternal Health Task Force, part of the…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently awarded $250,000 to fund a new Weatherhead Initiative in Afro-Latin American Studies. The Center funds the initiative through its Weatherhead Initiative Research Cluster in International Affairs grant, which supports large-scale and groundbreaking research in the realm of international affairs. Three Harvard investigators will spearhead this new initiative: Alejandro…

On Oct. 20, Henry Rosovsky, Ph.D. ’59 received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Asian University for Women. The connection between the longtime academic and leader of Harvard and a relatively young women’s university in Bangladesh may surprise at face value, but exemplifies Rosovsky’s commitment to enabling humanity to reach its highest potential. Rosovsky…

Student leaders from across Harvard’s graduate and professional schools will gather in the Barker Center on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 for the second “Student Leader Convening on Addressing Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at Harvard.” In the wake of the devastating revelations of last year’s AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, this event…

Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D. ’91, Dean of Faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Karen M. Emmons, professor and Dean for Academic Affairs, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the National Academies announced today. Election to the NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of…

By age 95, people have a 50% chance of having Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the bad news. But Albert Hofman, new chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert in vascular and neurologic diseases, thinks that that sobering Alzheimer’s statistic will improve in the years to come. 1.…

Two Graduate Fellowships are available for Harvard Ph.D. students each fall and spring semester at Villa I Tatti. The primary goal is to allow students working on their dissertation or selecting their topics to read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature, and to see objects related to their studies. I Tatti offers its Fellows the precious…

On Oct. 19, faculty members of the Harvard Graduate School of Education will gather to explore where education fits into the 2016 election. How could the outcome of the election affect education in America? What will the next president really be able to do for education? An Education Election? Republican nominee Donald Trump has not…

In signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson acknowledged an uncomfortable truth: “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce a research residency at the Wimbledon House, a modern masterpiece designed by world-renowned British architect Richard Rogers. Open to accomplished professionals and scholars working in any field related to the built environment, the Richard Rogers Fellowship is dedicated to advancing research on a wide range of…

Cassandra Okechukwu, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, studies how different environments—such as our homes and our workplaces—shape our health. She sat down with Christiana von Hippel S.D. ’19 to talk about her life and work. How did you first become interested in academic public health? I always knew I would become a professor—it is…