The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University announces the appointment of Kanaka Rajan as its first faculty member hired within the recently launched institute. As a founding faculty member at the Kempner,  Rajan will serve as an institute investigator. Rajan will also have a dual appointment, serving as…

Tagalog language courses will be taught at Harvard for the first time this fall, along with Indonesian and Thai. The Harvard University Asia Center and the Department of South Asian Studies have announced the hire of two new preceptors to teach Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia. Elementary and intermediate Filipino (Tagalog) courses will be taught by…

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of seven Resident Fellows and two Visiting Fellows who will join the IOP for the fall 2023 semester. The fellows bring diverse experience in politics, elected office, global diplomacy, judiciary affairs, and journalism to address the challenges facing our country and world today.…

First-year Bimba Carpenter lifted her artwork from the table. Moments earlier, she had finished a design, carefully rendered in puff paint on a rectangle of fabric, featuring laughing people and the text, “Just laugh!” But now the paint was accidentally smeared. The lesson? Mistakes will be made, and we may as well laugh about them.…

Live streaming of Sunday services at the Memorial Church will kick off when fall term opens this September, capping off a two-year renovation project of the church’s audio-visual system. The Sept. 3 service represents a significant step in the history of the Memorial Church. At 11 a.m. Sunday, a new array of remote video cameras…

Australia-Harvard Fellowships 2024 program is accepting applications through Oct. 9. Offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia, the fellowships are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard who have a persuasive plan for collaborative work in Australia with its best bioscience researchers and educators. The…

Do you have an idea for an initiative that will embrace and promote the importance of mental health and well-being for students? Consider applying to the Wellbeing Project Fund. The Wellbeing Project Fund came out of the University’s Student Mental Health Initiative, which kicked off last year to share resources and support a Harvard culture…

A new crop of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students got their official welcome to the School when Orientation kicked off on Aug. 21. The week’s worth of events began at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, where 488 new students from 58 countries were welcomed with School swag, a light breakfast, and…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Micha Winkler Thomas as their new deputy director. Winkler Thomas will serve in a senior leadership position, working alongside the director, and will oversee several of the museums’ administrative divisions. A leader in the museum, government, nonprofit, and cultural sectors, Winkler Thomas brings to the museums her extensive experience…

Life Sciences Research Foundation has announced funding for 18 early career postdoctoral researchers in all areas of life sciences, including two from Harvard. These researchers will receive funding over the next three years as they investigate questions surrounding human health and disease. Diego Pacheco Pinedo was awarded for a proposal titled “Neural circuits underlying feedback…

The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that it has named Sherry Yang as the 2023-2024 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from the Grossman family, honors the life and legacy of Grossman, who dedicated his career to strengthening…

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local high school students to experience the world of cutting-edge research. The department celebrated the success of the program with a breakfast event on Aug. 17…

Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Setti Warren has announced the appointment of Morgan Brown as the new executive director of the IOP.   Brown brings to the role a deep commitment to public service and civic engagement, as well as a dedication to the mission and values of the IOP. Brown ’06, M.P.A. ’18, was…

A new lactation room accessible to the entire Harvard community has opened at 1414 Massachusetts Ave. The tranquil fourth-floor space, a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Work/Life, is part of a broader effort to reimagine physical campus resources to accommodate a new, flexible way of working that became…

A group of faculty led by Jason Beckfield, the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, gathered last week for the first of three pilot retreats organized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Office of Undergraduate Education and the FAS Dean’s Office. The two-day brainstorm and professional development opportunity focused on developing curricula in…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Mitra Abbaspour as their new Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the museums’ Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, which oversees the collection of art from 1901 to the present day. A respected veteran in the arts field with over 20 years of experience, Abbaspour…

Harvard Ph.D. candidate Chrystel Oloukoï has been awarded an inaugural Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the art world. Oloukoï, who is completing a Ph.D. in African American Studies, is one of two emerging cultural critics of color who received the award this year. Oloukoï is an art writer, researcher, artist, and…

Joonho Lee, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut working in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemistry. The Blavatnik Awards…

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property (IP) law scholar, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS).  “I am delighted that Ruth Okediji has agreed to serve as the next director of the Center for African Studies,” said…

“I learned that at my age I have a lot of power, that I can make my voice heard,” said Iffah Merchant, a 15-year-old from Columbus, Georgia. “Now, I know just how impactful I can be.” That was a key takeaway from students at the third Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health this July…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced the 2023 recipients of its three fellowship programs: the Harvard Global Health Institute Climate and Health Burke Fellowship supports scholarly research at the important intersection of climate change and global health, an up-and-coming, transdisciplinary area of study; the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Global Health Fellowship provides funding…

Laura Bellamy ’13 will be the next Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey, and  Jenny Rohn has been named Harvard softball head coach, Harvard Athletics announced this week. For both coaches, their new roles mark a return to Cambridge. Bellamy remains one of Harvard’s best goaltenders in its 45-year history. She holds…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Laure Marest as their new Damarete Associate Curator of Ancient Coins — one of the few numismatic positions based at a U.S. university museum. Marest will lead the charge in rethinking the presentation of the museums’ sizable collection of ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and other coins, as well as…

China, India, Indonesia, Uganda, and Vietnam are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies for the coming decade, according to researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. The new growth projections presented in the Atlas of Economic Complexity include the first detailed look at 2021 trade data, which reveal continued disruptions from the uneven…

Growing up, Shana Grant knew that she wanted to pursue a health-related career, so she set her sights on the path that she was most familiar with — becoming a doctor. But once in college, she found that the idea of practicing medicine didn’t feel quite right. “I just didn’t know how to express my…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to work closely with leading biotech industry and…

Malcolm McClain, M.B.A./M.P.P.  ’23, has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following graduation so he can work with, learn from, and make a difference in a growing business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in…

The Family Van, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated mobile community health program, has been serving the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston for three decades. In addition to bringing medical services to the community, the van now provides mental health support for clients as well. Healthy Roads, which was launched in 2021, offers free…

For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to unravel the sequence of the human genome, the precise recipe of everyone’s DNA. That has led to incredible advances in discovering genes responsible for countless diseases. But within the last five to seven years, new and more sophisticated research tools have emerged. Known as single-cell…