The Salata Institute, founded in 2022, is driving Harvard research to develop and promote solutions to the toughest climate challenges. Today, the institute announces a new advisory board with the experience, networks, insight, and resources to significantly accelerate this work. The founding board members will be joined in the coming months and years by additional leaders from…

The Vilcek Foundation announced the 2025 recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship on Feb. 3. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was named as this year’s honoree. The award, which recognizes leaders with a profound impact on society and contributions to the fields of arts, sciences, and humanities, comes…

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister (2015-2019), who rose to power on an anti-austerity platform during an acute stage of the Eurocrisis, has been appointed as a short-term, resident Policy Fellow of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) and The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) during the spring 2025 academic term. “We…

The Mittal Institute is pleased to announce its first recipients of the Faculty Climate Research Grants. These grants are designed to foster deeper scholarly engagement on climate change in South Asia, catalyze the creation of new knowledge, and contribute to the development of sustainable solutions. Projects focused on three main research categories: energy transition and energy policy;…

Professor Na “Lina” Li has received the 2024 IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The Winkour Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Li was honored for “fundamental contributions to control, learning, and optimization of cyber-physical systems and application to biomedical and energy…

Harvard is cranking up the fun this winter as Ice Bumper Cars whiz onto the Science Center Plaza. Join us for zigzagging, bumping, and spinning alongside your friends, fellow students, or even brave passersby! It’s the newest addition to Harvard’s popular WinterFest program which also features fire pits, outdoor games, and music! Take a ride…

Harvard College student Eliot Hodges ’25 of Denver has been named one of 16 Churchill Scholars for the 2025-26 academic year, the Winston Churchill Foundation announced this month.  The Churchill Scholarship funds one year of master’s study in science, math, or engineering at the University of Cambridge. Hodges will pursue a one-year M.A.St. in pure…

Taeku and Shirley Lee have been named the new faculty deans of Dunster House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced Wednesday. They will begin their roles July 1. Taeku is the Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University, having joined the University in 2022 as part of the ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration…

The written word is still the quintessential portal from the academic mind to the research community and beyond through scholarly papers, books, and articles, even in the electronic and social media age. What is vital in today’s media-centric landscape is the art of writing with the eyes of the reader in mind. Bearing this reality…

Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Melanie Matchett Wood was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) earlier this month. She received the award for her research into arithmetic statistics and spanning probability, random groups, arithmetic geometry, algebraic geometry, topology, and number theory. According to a statement released by…

Harvard University has expanded its existing partnership with American Ancestors, a national center for family history, heritage, and culture, and the oldest genealogical nonprofit in America. As part of the next phase of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, American Ancestors — which has been conducting the genealogical research on behalf of the…

A fossil discovery in a remote part of South Australia has shed light on one of evolution’s great mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, Earth’s largest, most species-rich animal group. In a new study, published last month in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe a 555-million-year-old worm-like organism beautifully preserved in the rocks of Nilpena Ediacara…

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announced the creation of the Langston Hughes Fellowship on Jan. 17. Journalist, New York Times columnist, and political analyst Charles M. Blow will serve as the inaugural recipient of the initiative.   The fellowship, which will support scholars and artists whose work “embodies the spirit of…

The Kempner Institute announced the appointment of SueYeon Chung, Ph.D. ’17, who returns to Harvard as a Kempner Institute Investigator and faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Center for Brain Science (CBS). In addition to her appointments within the Kempner Institute and CBS, Chung will hold a faculty position as assistant professor of…

Apple phones analyze user data without revealing information about individuals. Google Maps shows how busy public places are without disclosing people’s locations. Researchers query vast troves of sensitive medical records to study disease patterns while protecting patient privacy. Computer scientist Cynthia Dwork has had a hand in all of it. Dwork, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer…

Visit the newly launched David Rubenstein Treehouse website to learn more about, and see inside, this architecturally unique building that is rising in Allston. Scheduled to open this fall, the Rubenstein Treehouse, managed through Harvard Common Spaces and Harvard Real Estate, will serve as a “front door” to the growing Enterprise Research Campus. It will accommodate…

Twelve Harvard affiliates are among 150 scholars worldwide chosen as recipients of this year’s Schwarzman Scholarship. The students will complete a one-year, fully-funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing, starting in August 2025.   Scholars are selected through a competitive application process designed to identify leadership potential, intellect, and…

Over the 2023-24 academic year, Harvard Divinity School Writer-in Residence Terry Tempest Williams and Professor Stephanie Paulsell led 16 students from the classroom to the landscape of Great Salt Lake through a year-long seminar. The course, “Walking the Inland Sea: Desert Contemplation and Great Salt Lake,” examined the ecological, economic, spiritual, and artistic imprint of the lake and the…

Ashwin Vasan, until recently the health commissioner for New York City, and Marcia Fudge, until recently the U.S. secretary for Housing and Urban Development, will be on campus this spring to teach classes and mentor students as Richard M. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellows at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.…

The Growth Lab’s research agenda continues to span multiple continents, addressing critical economic growth and development challenges across diverse regions. Our researchers have focused on pressing issues, including water sustainability, gender equality in employment, green growth, migration, and regional economic development. It’s our mission to collaborate with policymakers and share our insights with the world…

Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, was honored last week with the 2024 Hegel Prize at a ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany. Named for 19th-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who was born and raised in Stuttgart, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the humanities. “I was both delighted and surprised at the extent…

Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions invited the world to a two-day groundbreaking summit on the life and work of 20th-century mystic and spiritual teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, and thousands of scholars, practitioners, and the curious from around the globe responded. On Dec. 4 and 5, more than 300 people from as far…

Venturing outdoors during heatwaves may become deadly for millions of people in a world only slightly warmer than today’s, according to new research that considers the effect of solar radiation, wind and other factors on the human body. The Harvard University researchers look at “uncompensable heat” — heat stress so severe that even a fit,…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research in partnership with the Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships pleased to announce the second year of an opportunity for collaborative research projects related to Generative AI, between Harvard faculty and undergraduate students over the summer of 2025. The goal of this funding opportunity is…

The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 GEM Incubation Fund. The fund supports emerging research that strives to advance solutions to pressing development challenges of our time, in line with the theme of CID’s annual Global Empowerment Meeting. This year’s fund prioritizes research that incubates solutions, recommends…

Each year, the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life invites the Harvard Divinity School community to Seasons of Light. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this annual multireligious service honors the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions, including choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and…

As new mayors prepare to take the reins in city halls across the country, 24 newly elected U.S. mayors have been selected for the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University’s Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days, delivered in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School.…

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School has appointed former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as a Senior Fellow. Recognized as one of the most influential diplomats of his generation, Kuleba served as Ukraine’s chief diplomat during the critical early years of Russia’s full-scale invasion, becoming a global advocate for…