Harvard is being recognized for its commitment to the biking community.  The University just received a Gold level, Bicycle Friendly University award, from the League of American Bicyclists.  The awards are given to schools that demonstrate outstanding support of bicycling to ensure healthy, accessible, and eco-friendly transportation. “More than 15% of Harvard commuters ride bikes…

In the early 1970s, the Finnish province of North Karelia had one of the world’s highest death rates from heart disease. Responding to an appeal from the community, local authorities partnered with the World Health Organization to launch the North Karelia Project, a community-wide effort to change the physical and social environment to promote healthier…

Sangeeta Bhatia knew in her teens that she wanted to work on improving human health and, after studying biomedical engineering at Brown University, took her first job at a pharmaceutical company. That foray lasted less than a year, and sent her “running back to grad school” to recover her connection to what she calls “the…

Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), will appear in the third and fourth episodes of the PBS series “Native America,” which will air tonight at 9 and 10 p.m. on WGBH. Carrasco, who is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, will…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Nov. 13) announced that Sanjeev Daga will become its next chief operating officer in February 2019. Daga, who most recently served as COO of Columbia University Investment Management Co. (CIMC), will replace retiring COO Bob Ettl. “I had the pleasure of working with Sanjeev for more than 13 years at…

In a ceremony last month in Oviedo, Spain, King Felipe VI presented Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel with the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.  The Asturias Awards, the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world, recognize outstanding achievement in eight categories, including science, literature, the arts, and concord. Sandel, the Anne T. and…

A new computer model that uses machine learning and de-identified and aggregated search and location data from logged-in Google users was significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when compared with existing methods of consumer complaints and routine inspections, according to new research led by Google and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.…

Meredith B. Rosenthal, the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) in January 2019. In her new position, Rosenthal will succeed Rosabeth Moss Kanter, ALI’s leader since its founding in 2009.…

“A Hundred Moons,” an Indian classical dance performance by Neha Bansal, was presented to a sold-out audience at the Harvard Ed Portal on Oct. 30. Bansal, a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, shared her love of dance with the Ed Portal community. At the start of the program, the audience was encouraged to…

“Exploring the Future of Russia’s Economy and Markets: Towards Sustainable Economic Development,” a unique book on Russia’s economy, is being  released by Emerald Publishing on Nov. 6. The book was edited by Bruno S. Sergi, Harvard University Davis Center’s associate, scientific director of International Center for Emerging Markets Research. Contributors to the volume are Boris…

The Rev. Richard Smallwood will participate in conversation with Professor Braxton Shelley and in song with the Kuumba Singers (Harvard), Inner Strength Gospel Choir (Boston University), and Third Day Gospel Choir (Tufts). The evening culminates with a performance of Smallwood’s “Total Praise” at Sanders Theatre from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Nov. 19. For four decades, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research announces the opening of applications to the Lemann Brazil Research Fund as of Nov. 1. Applications are due by Jan. 22, 2019 and must be submitted via the Harvard University Funding Portal. Established in 2016 from a generous gift of the Lemann Foundation, the fund is intended…

In reaction to the growing challenges posed by global environmental change, author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Myers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health principal research scientist and Planetary Health Alliance director, have launched the Constellation Project. This new collaboration includes the Planetary Health Alliance, Harvard Divinity School, the…

A new grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) to the Wyss Institute at Harvard University aims to improve the survival of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) by funding the development of a human Airway Chip model of a CF lung that can be used to study the bacterial infections and inflammation that often lead…

The Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science is pleased to announce the theDataMap Visualization Contest. The contest challenges participants to use data from the Lab’s online portal to show how personal medical and mobile data is shared between companies, promoting awareness of data privacy issues through creative and innovative visualizations.…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its 2018 Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners’ “monumental,” “once-in-a-generation” European headquarters for Bloomberg LP, a project engineered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) Hanif Kara and his firm AKTII. The Stirling Prize is RIBA’s most prestigious award, given annually to a new building…

“The Plant Collections Network (PCN) of the American Public Gardens Association recently bestowed national accreditation status to two genera in the Arnold Arboretum’s collections: Forsythia and Ginkgo. Along with six previously recognized genera — Acer (maple), Carya (hickory), Fagus (beech), Stewartia, Syringa (lilac), and Tsuga (hemlock) — the Arboretum’s eight national collections represent some of…

When it comes to high-temperature superconductors, “high” is a relative term. In the field of superconductivity, “high temperature” means anything that can still be superconductive over 30 degrees Kelvin (K), or a balmy -405 degrees Fahrenheit (F). The first high-temperature superconductor was discovered in 1986, in ceramic compounds of copper and oxygen known as cuprates.…

Witches, murder, intrigue — all will be revealed in the fog. Or will it? On Oct. 21 at 5 p.m., Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) conjures Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” amid the shifting atmosphere of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog installation at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. “Fog x Macbeth” will be a free performance of an abridged version…

The Practice Platform at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (HGSD) presents “Talking Practice,” the first podcast series to feature in-depth interviews with leading design practitioners from around the world on the ways in which architects, landscape architects, designers, and planners articulate design imagination through practice. Hosted by Grace La, Professor of Architecture and Chair of…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research awardees who, together, establish a cross-University community of early-career science scholars. “This is fantastic recognition for promising scientists at the start of their careers” said Rick McCullough, vice provost for research and professor…

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming Harvard research institute Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR, the digital library for research and teaching that is part of the non-profit ITHAKA, are launching, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Plant Humanities Initiative: a digital tool with related…