Five Harvard College students have been awarded this year’s General Education Prize, an award for undergraduates who went above and beyond in their learning. Seniors Ashton Body and Justin Hu, juniors Shira Hoffer and Shane Rice and sophomore Manar Abrre were all chosen as 2024 winners. The General Education Prize was established by the Program in General…

Peace in the world. Contentment among all people. Abundant harvests. In a one-hour ceremony, set in the courtyard outside the Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, these petitions were formally submitted to the three highest deities of the Daoist religion.  “I thought it was fitting, given what’s going on in the world, and…

At the corner of Broadway and Inman streets in Cambridge is a white, three-story Victorian house with black shutters and a red door. The house is the home of On The Rise, an organization that advocates for and provides daytime services to unhoused women and transgendered/non-binary people in the Boston area. For Alex, who asked…

Two Harvard University faculty members won the prestigious Carnegie Fellowship this week, a recognition of their work on U.S. democracy and political divisions. The 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows includes a total of 28 scholars delving deeper into the current state of polarization — as well as possible pathways to strengthening cohesion. Taeku Lee,…

Ronnie Levin, an instructor in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been named by Time as among the 100 individuals who most influenced global health in 2024. The inaugural Time 100 Health list, published May 2, recognizes the impact, innovation, and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals in…

The EdRedesign Lab’s Institute for Success Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced its third cohort of cross-sector teams from across the country joining its 2024 Success Planning Community of Practice.   There are sixteen total communities invited to participate in the 2024-2025 Success Planning Community of Practice, including six communities from cohort…

Laila Nasher ’25, a history and social anthropology concentrator with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, and rights, was named as a 2024 Truman Scholar. Nasher joins a cohort of 60 new Truman Scholars who were selected from 709 candidates from 285 institutions. “Resourceful, patriotic leaders, today’s Truman Scholars would make President Truman proud,” said Terry…

Nine Harvard University faculty members are among the 120 individuals elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences. In an announcement last week, the NAS named five new members affiliated with Harvard Medical School, three with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and one with the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They are:   Flaminia Catteruccia, professor…

Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its second annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned organic chemist who passed away last year, Yoshito Kishi. The symposium, which took place on April 30, was attended by approximately 100 people, including faculty…

The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative (H&LS) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Reparative Partnership Program, which supports innovative and impactful proposals addressing systemic inequities affecting people who have been harmed by slavery, particularly in the Cambridge and Boston communities.  “I am excited about the opportunities these grant partnerships will…

Black ecology celebrates the convergence of environmental and racial justice movements to uplift historically marginalized communities. At the Ninth annual Scholarship and Social Justice Conference, several scholars spoke about how their own personal and academic journeys influenced their work in this emerging field. Centering Black voices in discussions about public lands and decision-making processes is…

As a child growing up in the 1970s in Southern California, Marcos Luna was acutely aware of inequality issues and discrimination against the Latino community.  He witnessed “blockbusting,” where real estate agents would tell white homeowners that minorities were moving into the neighborhood to scare them into selling their homes cheaply. Luna’s community also struggled with…

Recent Harvard Ph.D. graduate Soon Wei Daniel Lim was one of 32 early career researchers named a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow. Advised by Professor Federico Capasso at Harvard, Lim’s thesis in applied physics was titled “Sculpting the dark: Singularity engineering with metasurfaces.”   As a Schmidt Science Fellow, Lim will pivot from physics to biological…

Time magazine has named Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the faculty director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, to the inaugural  2024 Time 100 Health list in recognition for her groundbreaking contributions to global health. The Time 100…

Fourteen Harvard faculty are among the 250 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. “We honor these artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors for their accomplishments and for the curiosity, creativity, and courage required to reach new heights,” said academy President David Oxtoby. “We invite these…

Regular visits to the dentist are not only good for a routine examination and cleaning, but also for the detection of oral cancer — cancer that develops in areas in and around the mouth, such as the tongue, mouth lining, lips, gums, or in the back of the throat. Approximately 58,500 people in the U.S.…

Five Harvard professors were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year, drawing support for projects that range from the political to the literary. Tracy K. Smith, professor of English and of African and African American Studies and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, won a fellowship for her work examining a variety…

Eight Harvard faculty are among the 502 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2023 class of fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. AAAS is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. This latest class is comprised of scientists, engineers, and innovators…

Harvard University Dining Services’ (HUDS) Sous Chef Ameer Wahid, part of the culinary team at Harvard Law School, earned a prestigious American Culinary Federation (ACF) gold medal at the National Association of College & University Food Service (NACUFS) regional conference on April 2. Wahid had one hour to prepare a nutritionally balanced plate using three…

In December 1933, Rosa “Kaethe” Goldberg Fromm entered Gestapo headquarters determined to persuade authorities to free her husband, Walther, who had been arrested for signing a petition. Three years later, Kaethe, Walther, and their 3-year-old son, Guenther, dodged bullets at a border crossing as they fled Nazi Germany, eventually landing in New York City to…

Harvard’s Center for Brain Science has received a gift from the NTT Research Foundation to establish the Center for Brain Science-NTT Fellowship Program. The two-year gift, renewable for up to three more years, creates a fund that supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence, an emerging field that uses physics to tackle fundamental questions…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS’s graduating students,…

In a viewpoint in JAMA Health Forum, Harvard University Vice Provost of Special Projects Sara Bleich and her co-authors provide an overview of how legacies of slavery connect to structural racism and show up in healthcare and beyond, demonstrating the many implications in the healthcare system. And while considerable work is underway by colleges and…

For the first time, 22 Colombian women, prominent in areas as diverse as science, social innovation, community and political activism, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and the private and financial sector, were honored during Harvard Women’s Month. The event, which took place on March 30, was spearheaded by the Harvard Colombian Student Association, the Harvard College Women’s Center,…

When Neil Sullivan — a nonverbal individual with profound autism and a complex array of medical conditions — aged out of pediatric care and began seeing adult-care physicians, some doctors dismissed behaviors that they thought were related to his autism rather than to his health, said his mother, Maura Sullivan. It was frustrating for both…

When Tong “Max” Chen ’04, M.B.A. ’08, J.D. ’10 arrived on Harvard’s campus from his home in China as a 19-year-old, he was thousands of miles away from his relatives, but he soon found a second family.  Chen joined the Harvard College Host Family Program as a first-year student, where he was matched with Dan…

The EdRedesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has announced the launch of its new Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders, a tuition-free, 18-month visiting fellowship for senior leaders working in the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field.   Children and families in communities across the country experience complex, multi-generational, and substantial disparities in…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research in partnership with the Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships is pleased to announce an opportunity for collaborative research projects related to Generative AI, between Harvard faculty and undergraduate students over the summer of 2024. The goal of this funding opportunity is to foster collaboration…