Over the past two decades, there’s been a steady proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. In recent weeks, the threat posed by these weapons has loomed larger, with Russian president Vladimir Putin threatening to use them in his nation’s war against Ukraine. David Hunter thinks the way to minimize the threat is by increasing…

The Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming 26 ventures into the 2022-2023 Launch Lab X GEO cohort, a global startup leadership program designed to help early-stage, Harvard alumni-led ventures grow into sustainable and disruptive businesses.  “As we kick off the fourth Launch Lab X GEO cohort, we are thrilled to welcome high-potential ventures across a variety…

Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, has been named among the first cohort Moore Experimental Physics Investigators. Each of these investigators is pushing the boundaries of what is known and what is possible. “The breadth and scientific audacity of experiments proposed by these individuals is stunning and inspiring,” said Theodore…

Massachusetts Center for the Book has named Harvard Professor Tiya Miles the recipient of its Nonfiction Award for “All That She Carried” (Penguin Random House). This National Book Award winner is a compassionate account of three generations of Black women’s lives, from slavery to freedom. The 22nd Annual Massachusetts Book Awards recognize achievement in five categories…

The U.S. has a lot to learn from Costa Rica. That message came through loud and clear in a fireside chat with former Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, held Oct. 13 at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Alvarado took office in 2018 at the age of 38 and stepped down last May,…

The Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the Rock Executive Fellows, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year. Rock Executive Fellows (REF) are comprised of four non-faculty affiliates/practitioners who support and contribute to the extensive Rock Center programming through a rich set of co-curricular and curricular activities. REF is a yearlong program appointment…

The European Research Council has awarded Harvard Professor Charles Langmuir and researchers the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany a €14 million Synergy Grant to explore the link between shrinking ice sheets and volcanos on the ocean floor. The six-year grant will allow Langmuir and his German colleagues to establish a first…

As a child, Venerable Dorjey Dolma was mesmerized by how her aunt, a Tibetan Buddhist nun, wore the maroon monastic robe. It was her admiration for her aunt, and appreciation for the robes, that made her decide when she was 6 years old that she would become a Buddhist nun, too. “I got inspired by…

In the wake of Hurricane Ian, with some Florida hospitals closed or damaged and their health care staff exhausted, a team of 37 Massachusetts doctors, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and paramedics traveled near Sarasota — north of the state’s most-damaged areas — to run an emergency department in tents outside of a local hospital. During their weeklong clinical…

Jay O. Light, dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on  Oct. 15 at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and engaging with his students (including after they…

At the first in-person faculty meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since February 2020, Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS Claudine Gay announced a cluster hire of three scholars specializing in the environment, climate, and sustainability. The hiring effort marks initial steps in advancing FAS research and teaching efforts focused on the climate…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the formation of the Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, which is both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work it has done and will do to understand and advance equality, including racial equality, in organizations and business. The role of the initiative, much like the Gender Initiative…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has welcomed six new primary faculty members over the past few months: Irini Albanti is a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the executive director of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Her research interests are in capacity building in resource-limited settings, impact strategy, storytelling, and the role of corporate philanthropy…

When Chester Pierce ’48, M.D. ’52, took the field at the University of Virginia on Oct. 11, 1947 as a member of the Harvard football team, it was recognized as the first time a Black student-athlete played college football at an all-white university south of the Mason-Dixon line. The practice at the time was for…

More than 700 graduate and professional school students convened at the Smith Campus Center  on Sept. 29 for the fifth annual Harvard Grad Fest.  Hosted by the Graduate Student Affairs Circle, Grad Fest brings graduate students and their families together early in the academic year to increase networks and support systems. The event was supported…

The Arnold Arboretum is celebrating its Sesquicentennial and this year it served as the backdrop for a unique training program aimed at keeping Harvard’s workers safe and its trees healthy. During October, Harvard Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) brought together a collection of arborists, landscapers, and safety experts to ensure that employees have the knowledge…

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, has won the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for making seminal discoveries in cell and neurobiology with the ingenious imaging technologies she developed.  This international award honors outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and…

Harvard Business School has announced this year’s recipients of the Robert S. Kaplan (M.B.A. 1983) Life Sciences Fellowship. Established in 2008, the fellowship was created by Robert S. Kaplan, who served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and was the…

When Jessica Lovett developed long COVID, her fatigue was so severe that she could not move her body. “I was a first-time mom, and I had a 2-year-old son,” she said. “I wanted to be able to pick him up, but I couldn’t even stand up.” Lovett and several other patients shared their experiences in a…

At any given time of year, Harvard is home to lectures, seminars, and exhibits on topics of immense global importance — from public health to the climate crisis to the preservation of democracy and human rights. In countries around the world and in Harvard’s 20 offices abroad, faculty, students, staff, and other members of our…

A new vaccine for malaria developed by scientists at the University of Oxford was up to 80 percent effective at preventing disease in young children, according to trial results published in early September. Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases, offers some thoughts on the new vaccine and its potential impact. Q: Media reports have suggested that…

The Harvard Alumni Association has named Stephany Zhivotovsky ’23 of Cabot House and Adam Aleksic ’23 of Kirkland House as this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars. Each year the Aloian Memorial Scholarship is given to two juniors who demonstrate thoughtful leadership and who improve the quality of life in Harvard Houses. The award…

Jarad Mason, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a prediction about the exponential growth of computing power, the program embraces the spirit of Gordon Moore’s passion for science and penchant for inventing. “The Moore…

Nine scientists from Harvard are among the 103 who have been selected in four categories to receive more than $200 million in grants over five years through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, which aims to promote innovative studies addressing major challenges in the biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences. Adam Granger, Rachel…

“In just seven days last June,” said Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams, “the U.S. Supreme Court set back public health by 50 years.” That sobering assessment kicked off a Sept. 16 panel discussion at the School focused on recent Court decisions that, as Williams put it, “drove back efforts to address the…

New York Times bestselling author John Green will open the 2022-2023 William Belden Noble Lecture series at the Memorial Church, 7 p.m. Oct. 14, with a deep plunge into the subject of apocalyptic climate change. Green is the author of such well-known titles as “The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down,” and…

The first study to systematically investigate flooding risk to hospitals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Category 1-4 storms finds that even relatively weak storms pose a serious flood risk to hospitals along the coast. Sea level rise expected in this century due to the effects of climate change increases the odds of hospital flooding…