In a testimony on Dec. 15, before a panel examining policies toward Native children in the U.S., Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, emeritus, spoke about the importance that American Indian self-determination has played in helping spark a remarkable period of economic growth across a broad swath of Indian Country. Appearing before…

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded Harvard Professor of Mathematics Peter Kronheimer and MIT Professor of Mathematics Tomasz Mrowka the 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their 1993 paper “Gauge theory for embedded surfaces, I.” Kronheimer and Mrowka’s work introduced new notions and developed sophisticated technology that continues to play a central…

Two exceptional STEM students have been named to the inaugural cohort of Quad Fellows, the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States jointly announced. Pallas Chou ’23 studies chemical and physical biology with a secondary in government. At Harvard, the senior works on the chemistry of enzymes that form the antibiotic negamycin. Chou,…

More people applied for rental assistance when sent de-stigmatizing messages in a study coauthored by a Harvard Kennedy School faculty member. Elizabeth Linos, the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and faculty director of The People Lab, and Jessica Lasky-Fink, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, and research director…

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many dental clinics faced temporary closure or capacity restrictions due to what was believed to be an increased risk associated with aerosol procedures. Because dental procedures require clinicians to be in close proximity to their patient’s mouth and nose, practicing dentistry was considered to be a high risk…

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra alumni — from the Class of 1953 to the Class of 2022 —  gathered in Sanders Theatre on Nov. 12 to honor the memory of former HRO Music Director James Yannatos. Affectionately called “Dr. Y,” Yannatos conducted the orchestra from 1964 until his retirement in 2009. Yannatos passed away in 2011. A video…

Twenty-five mayors arrived at Harvard on Nov. 30, some just days after winning their elections, for a newly designed Program for New Mayors. Offered by the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University with Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and the US Conference of Mayors, the program builds on a longstanding seminar for new…

In an effort to cultivate renewed culinary creativity, Harvard University Dining Services’ Managing Director Smitha Haneef laid out two fun challenges for her team to meet this fall semester. First, hoping to celebrate local, biodiverse produce, Haneef invited chefs to create small-bite daily dishes using farm-fresh ingredients. Called Delish!, the menu concept is served daily…

“25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs,” the recent award-winning book by Andrew Leon Hanna, J.D. ’19, has been named to the Financial Times Best Books of 2022 list. The book, which was published by Cambridge University Press in May, centers on the stories of three Syrian women entrepreneurs living in the Za’atari…

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center is partnering with five institutions to establish the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies after receiving a $1.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation. The consortium, which will be led by Professor Alejandro de la Fuente, was announced at the commencement of the ALARI Second Continental…

The May 2023 premiere of a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera “Evita” was announced today by American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. The A.R.T., in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company, will produce “Evita” May 14-July 16, 2023 at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square. Sammi Cannold (Forbes’ 30…

A team of Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development researchers at Harvard Kennedy School today released a research report documenting the costs to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine—Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot—and to Maine’s non-tribal citizens of the state’s being screened off from federal policies of Indian self-determination and self-governance. For the last several decades,…

Five years from his life-changing football injury, Ben Abercrombie continues his journey through Harvard, among a community which fiercely supports one of its most inspiring members. Following his spinal cord injury, the Benson M. Abercrombie ’21 Fund was established by the Harvard Varsity Club (HVC) to assist the Abercrombie family with the significant medical and…

Julia Minson, a decision scientist at Harvard Kennedy School, has built her scholarly career on studying ways to reduce conflict between people who disagree with each other. She worries that partisan conflict now poses a growing threat to political life in the United States and beyond. That’s why Minson, an associate professor of public policy,…

Tamar Herzog, the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award honoring lifelong achievement. The honor recognizes both Herzog’s research and teaching career which has spanned nearly three decades. Herzog, who began her professional life as a litigator, describes herself as a lifelong learner, combining…

Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, recently received the prestigious Photography Catalogue of the Year award at the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. Selected each year since 2012, the awards also recognize excellence in two other major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the…

In health, place matters. That’s why Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Nancy Krieger and colleagues have updated and broadened a project aimed at training people in how to track and monitor socially related disparities having to do with where a person lives. Over the summer, Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, spearheaded an effort called the Public Health Disparities…

As part of a University-wide effort to support local Boston and Cambridge youth programming that builds college and career awareness, Harvard hosted middle and high school students through several campus programs this fall. In September, nearly 20 students from Massachusetts Rep. Chynah Tyler’s 7th Suffolk district visited Harvard’s campus for a tour and lunch. For…

The 100th annual George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics, held on Nov. 8, honored and celebrated a years-long collaboration between the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. The lecturer was Rueben C. Warren, who directs that center at Tuskegee. The…

Healthier plant-based dietary patterns were associated with better environmental health, while less healthy plant-based dietary patterns, which are higher in foods like refined grains and sugar-sweetened beverages, required more cropland and fertilizer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The findings also showed that red and processed meat had…

New research by scholars from Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco, finds that service sector workers in the United States have limited and unequal access to paid sick leave. The study also finds that fewer women have access to paid sick leave than men, but this gender gap is eliminated in states that…

The Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship is launching two new programs — the Banga Family Social Entrepreneur Postgraduate Fellowship and the Banga Family Social Innovation Research Research Grant — to catalyze social entrepreneurship and support social impact research.  This fund expands the center’s campus-wide efforts to incubate promising ideas, transform research into actions…

Buildings renovated with healthier furnishings had significantly lower levels of the entire group of per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) — toxic chemicals linked with many negative health effects — than buildings with conventional furnishings, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study was published online Nov. 4…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus ’88 and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced today its 2023 Gala will honor departing Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow, M.P.P. ’76, J.D. ’76, Ph.D. ’78 and Adele Fleet Bacow for their inspiring impact on the arts…

English concentrator William Lohier ’23 was awarded first place and a $4,000 prize by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in its national writing contest, “Celebrating Black Writers: Voices Calling for Activism and Social Justice.” The gifted writer, who was New York City’s Youth Poet Laurate in 2018, beat 47 other submissions to…

Following a pandemic-induced two-year delay, the Harvard Varsity Club (HVC) was finally able to honor the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 last month, in celebrations attended by more than 250 guests. Eight varsity athletes and four national championship heavyweight crew boats joined the over 600 Harvard student-athletes already enshrined. Normally an annual October event…

In November 2021, researchers in the Botswana lab of Sikhulile Moyo discovered a coronavirus genome that contained dozens of new potentially dangerous mutations. The researchers rapidly alerted the rest of the world about the mutated virus — which eventually became known as the highly transmissible Omicron variant. With the quick warning, public health officials ramped up vaccination…

Three faculty members from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, and John Quackenbush — have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Membership is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements and commitment to service. Fawzi,…