The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association recently announced the recipients of the 2022 Alumni Awards, who were chosen by their peers through a nomination and voting process. The awards will be presented during this year’s Alumni Weekend, which takes place September 22-24. Alumni Award of Merit Established in 1992, the Alumni Award of…

This year, students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have a new opportunity to turn their ideas into startups with the potential for real-world impact. The HealthLab Accelerator program will bring together entrepreneurial teams focused on solving challenges in public and planetary health, and provide them with funding and opportunities for mentoring, networking, and collaboration.…

Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has received the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The New Horizons prizes are awarded to early-career scientists who have made significant contribution to the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Science, and Mathematics. The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by sponsors Sergey Brin,…

Since 2020, the number of individuals awaiting trial in San Francisco County who are required to wear an electronic monitoring (EM) device has increased by 308 percent. This explosion is the result of a decision in a case regarding defendants’ ability to pay cash bail and non-monetary release options. While many have applauded the solution…

The summer between high school and college is often filled with fleeting farewells and nervous energy as students prepare themselves for their lives ahead in a new home.  At Harvard, one of the most transformative aspects of the college experience is students sharing their own formative experiences and perspectives with one another.  That’s where the…

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been named the inaugural 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker. An esteemed leader in higher education, Hrabowski’s 30-year tenure as UMBC’s president received national recognition and praise for his commitment to advancing underrepresented minorities’ participation in science,…

The Hutchins Center Honors are back with a new slate of honorees after a nearly three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The W.E.B Du Bois Medal will be awarded to seven honorees “who embody the values of commitment and resolve that are fundamental to the Black experience in America” for their contributions to African and…

A new educational animation that debuted at the Museum of Science in Boston over the summer aims to give parents and children the chance to learn about menstruation — a topic that parents sometimes shy away from and that young people may have limited knowledge about. The animation was produced by researchers in the lab of Shruthi Mahalingaiah, assistant…

Two HMS Center for Bioethics faculty members, Francis Shen and Vardit Ravitsky have received research funding through the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Common Fund has launched the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in biomedical and behavioral research. Shen is part of the Ethical and…

Since 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has bestowed the HAA Award to distinguished alumni in recognition of their remarkable service to Harvard University through leadership and engagement activities. Continuing this tradition, the HAA has announced six recipients of the 2022 HAA Awards: Janet Nezhad Band ’83, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’90; David Battat ’91; Marion…

The mental health system is increasingly reliant on psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to meet the psychiatric needs of Medicare patients, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “We were surprised by the degree to which PMHNPs are the de facto mental health prescribers in parts…

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics has announced its inaugural Beecher Teaching Awards, which recognize the exceptional teaching of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. One award recognizes faculty teaching medical students in the Medical Ethics and Professionalism curriculum within Harvard Medical School. The second award recognizes faculty teaching in the Master of Science…

Of the 16 students across Harvard who received the 2022 New World Social Innovation Fellowship, given by the Social Innovation Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, eight are from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The fellowship provides students committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways —…

As the United States and China joust over high-risk disputes including Taiwan and Hong Kong, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School have stepped back to assess how the U.S.-China diplomatic rivalry has evolved during the 21st century as China has emerged as a dominant economic power. Their conclusion: China has abandoned its longtime mantra of keeping…

What started as a local first-year orientation activity in 2015 has evolved into an annual rallying call for civic activism across the greater Harvard community.  Through the 2022 Global Day of Service, 1,274 volunteers worked on 78 project teams supporting public service programs on five continents.  While the Global Day of Service is a symbolic…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım as the new Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, effective Oct. 3. Currently the Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, Yoltar-Yıldırım has worked since August 2017 to organize the extensive reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s…

Every day people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube. More than 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now more than ever, people are seeking reliable health information on the internet. This includes health care providers, who now have a new resource to reference on the world’s largest video…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2022 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS,…

Next week, the popular Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series kicks off its 13th year at Harvard University. The series pairs Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. This year’s Science and Cooking series will explore topics ranging from new culinary science research to nomadic…

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of five Hauser Leaders for the fall 2022 semester. Celebrating its eighth year, the Hauser Leaders Program brings distinguished leadership practitioners from across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors to CPL to engage with students, faculty, and the wider Harvard community. “At a…

Avner Halperin is a research fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, based in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and led by Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance Tarek Masoud. Halperin and colleagues Mahmoud Khweis, a tech entrepreneur focusing on the Palestinian economy, and Ely Sandler, an Israel Policy Fellow…

A group of local high school students joined Harvard mentors for a six-week program to improve their science literacy and equip them with basic life science, laboratory, and workforce skills. In partnership with the Harvard Ed Portal and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), the inaugural High School Lab Skills Summer (HSLS) concluded…

Traveling from over 25 states and nine countries, with different levels of climate education and involvement, 122 students met for the first time on July 24 at the Youth Summit on Climate, Health, and Equity at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor and co-founder of the summit, kicked off…

In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that it will provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest financial need — approximately 10 percent of…

When Harvard Kennedy School was approached by the Victory Institute, a national organization supporting openly LGBTQ leaders, to create an executive training fellowship, no one imagined the lasting and profoundly positive result of such a collaboration. Twenty years later, more than 200 LGBTQ state & local leaders from all over the U.S. have come to…

Before COVID-19 emerged as a global threat in 2020, institutions around the world had been trying to tackle the issue of pandemic preparedness. But those groups were underfunded, did not have clear-cut roles, and — importantly — were not working together. Now, as public health researchers and officials look ahead to future pandemics, the situation remains largely the…

In 2021, the longstanding global health goal to eradicate malaria experienced a paradigm shift: after 30 years of development, the first vaccine for the disease was endorsed by the World Health Organization. Countries are now working to incorporate this tool into the existing arsenal of malaria control measures, including insecticides for the mosquitoes carrying the parasite and drug treatments…

The Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute today announce the joint appointment of Brittany White as a visiting practitioner in residence for the 2022–2023 academic year. White, a widely respected decarceral strategist and community organizer, will spend the year in residence developing a new project to strengthen…