The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world’s largest mirrors, has secured a $205 million investment from its international consortium to accelerate construction. The investment marks one of the largest funding rounds for the telescope and includes leading commitments from Harvard University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, the São Paulo…

Semiconductors, the building blocks of the modern information age, are critical components to seemingly every manufactured product from phones to cars to computers. To discuss the challenge of building new microchip manufacturing capacity, we sat down with Jason Hsu, a research fellow at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center and a former member of Taiwan’s parliament…

In late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot put state-level caps on carbon emissions under the 1970 Clean Air Act. Such authority would, in effect, steer states away from coal and toward other types of power sources that emit less carbon. The Court said that, instead, the…

China, Vietnam, Uganda, Indonesia, and India are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies to 2030. That is the conclusion of researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University who presented new growth projections in the Atlas of Economic Complexity. The release provides the first detailed look at 2020 trade data, including major disruptions to…

Elena Savoia is a principal research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). She is deputy director of the Emergency Preparedness, Research, Evaluation & Practice Program (EPREP) and co-founder of the IRIS Coalition. She recently co-led a workshop for public health practitioners at the Global Health Security conference in Singapore on addressing mis-…

Samagya Banskota, former postdoctoral researcher in the David Liu Lab, has been recognized as one of the world’s top innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Banskota was celebrated for her work co-inventing a new drug-delivery system using engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) that can make precise edits to the genome. This year’s innovators were chosen…

Between the traditional 19th-century houses of London’s Islington neighborhood and the mega-development of the city’s Knowledge Quarter, home to a cluster of life science, technology, and cultural institutions as well as the bustling King’s Cross rail station, sits a 6.2-acre district known as the Regent Quarter. More than half of this site — 260,000 square…

On July 18, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative welcomed its sixth class of 40 mayors from around the world to participate in a yearlong education and professional development program. The flagship program of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, the Initiative is a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard…

The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics announced the passing of Lily Safra, its longtime friend and benefactor.  Mrs. Safra was a constant friend of Harvard’s Center for Ethics, embracing the role of principal benefactor and endowing the center in her husband’s name in 2004. In 2015, Mrs. Safra became our center’s only Edmond…

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof has joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the third senior faculty dedicated to the teaching and scholarship of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration (EIM). A historian with expertise in Latinx Studies, international migration, and popular culture, Hoffnung-Garskof officially began his role July 1, but will be on leave until next summer. The…

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, was awarded the 2022 Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the city of Mainz for his body of scholarship on the history of the book. The prize celebrates outstanding artistic, technical, and scientific achievements in printing. Hamburger was recognized for his…

In mid-June, seasoned city hall officials from four continents gained Harvard insights on negotiation using a novel set of resources. Participants in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s inaugural Negotiation for City Leaders program met in New York for four intense days of interaction and learning with faculty drawn from across Harvard’s professional Schools. “We unleash…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, has been elected to serve on the HMC Board of Directors. Barakett, who also serves as a member of the Harvard Corporation, will begin his tenure on the board this month. Formed in 1974, HMC invests the University’s endowment and related financial…

Erika Lee will join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the second hire of senior faculty dedicated to teaching and scholarship of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration (EIM). An award-winning historian and expert on Asian American history and immigration, Lee will begin her role as the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History in July 2023,…

Jia Liu, assistant professor of bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been recognized as one of the world’s top Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review.  Liu, 34, was chosen for his work on flexible nanoelectronics with physical and chemical properties that mimic biological tissue, including…

Conor Walsh, the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has received a 2022 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists. Walsh will receive $250,000, the largest unrestricted scientific award for young, faculty-ranked scientists and engineers. Walsh was chosen for his work…

The International Mathematical Union named Harvard Gerhard Gade University Professor Barry Mazur as the recipient of the 2022 Chern Medal. The award celebrates lifelong outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics and is given out once every four years. Mazur’s received the award for numerous fundamental contributions that have enriched mathematics over the past 50,…

The Amgen Foundation announced on June 20 an increased commitment to LabXchange, an online science education platform that provides users with access to high-quality science education resources at no cost. As LabXchange’s founding and lead sponsor, Amgen has committed $30 million, in addition to $13 million previously contributed, to enhance science learning opportunities for students…

The Harvard Department of Statistics awarded the 2022 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Yash Nair while also awarding the Dempster Prize to graduate student Ambarish Chattopadhyay. The Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize was founded in 2020 and is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator for their superb coursework in the concentration and for…

Growing up in Chicago, Hoda Mahmoud rarely came across dentists who looked like her. “Only later did I make the connection that it was not due to a lack of interest in the field; rather, it was a lack of opportunities and representation in dentistry,” said Mahmoud, a member of the Class of 2025 at…

Researchers from Harvard Chan SHINE and the Human Flourishing Program have published a new paper in the International Journal of Public Health examining the associations between social connectedness and mental health, based on a longitudinal survey and health insurance claims data. SHINE’s Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, and Eileen McNeely and Human Flourishing Program’s Matthew T.…

New polling analysis released today shows that the American public is narrowly divided on a slew of ideologically charged issues before the Supreme Court such as abortion, gun control, immigration, and whether public funds can be used to pay for private religious education. The data was collected by the Supreme Court Public Opinion Project, a…

People experiencing homelessness face innumerable challenges in achieving any sense of health. They endure a host of difficulties in managing chronic diseases — including extreme poverty, unstable housing, and even stolen medications — while not having any assurance of timely or compassionate care for acute illnesses and injuries. They have substantially heightened risks of communicable diseases and violence. And they face…

Alexander Banks, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is the 2022 recipient of the Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research. The award recognizes his advances in standardizing data analysis for obesity research. At a May 19, 2022 award ceremony and seminar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Banks shared his work to address…

The Harvard Climate Internship Program (HCIP) welcomes 17 graduate students as its inaugural cohort of summer intern fellows. The HCIP is a University-wide program supporting graduate students who work in a climate policy-oriented summer internship. The students represent the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded world-renowned neurobiologist and distinguished Harvard University brain researcher Joshua R. Sanes an honorary doctorate degree. The award celebrates Sanes’ numerous accomplishments in the fields of molecular and cellular biology, his groundbreaking research in understanding brain disorders, and in appreciation of his longstanding relationship with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. This program supports HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs as they build their promising life science ventures by developing their leadership talents and…

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced a new, five-person version of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” an award-winning docudrama by longtime (A.R.T.) collaborator Anna Deavere Smith and “The Wife of Willesden,” the North American premiere of a…

In January 2020 when the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Wuhan, China, Xihong Lin immediately sprang into action, collaborating with scientists there to analyze the city’s epidemic. The researchers estimated the coronavirus transmission rate and showed how it decreased after interventions were implemented, including isolation and quarantine, mask wearing, and social distancing. Last month, Lin, professor of biostatistics and…

The morning after the shooting in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Peter Swing, Ed.M.’22, was wide awake, sitting at his computer in a hotel room. It was 2 a.m., and he couldn’t sleep. The tragic events that had just unfolded at the Texas elementary school had unearthed a lot of feelings.…