Harvard University Housing residents moving in to Soldiers Field Park’s Building Four this year will be met with light, efficient, and healthier living spaces thanks to a recent renovation, which achieved LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. “We are very excited to have successfully completed Phase 1 of this multi-year effort to…

Harvard earned a top spot in this year’s Sierra Club annual “Cool Schools” ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities, the highest-ranking Ivy League institution recognized. Harvard’s completion of its aggressive, science-based climate goal and holistic focus on enhancing well-being, specifically by targeting healthier building materials, were referenced in helping Harvard earn the 13th…

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. The report, “Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,” documents how highly partisan right-wing sources helped shape mainstream press coverage and seize…

What might Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health look like if slavery and the oppression of Blacks and Native Americans had not occurred? That was the question that representatives from the School’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion posed to artist Lisa Rosowsky when they approached her about creating art for the Kresge Building’s Rosenau…

A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute sheds light on how a key fat-producing enzyme helps protect cells from a toxic form of fat. The new finding contributes to a fuller understanding of the fundamental biology that underlies common metabolic diseases related to obesity, such as type 2…

Black feminism and the women’s liberation movement. Transgender archives. American women’s history in the high school classroom. These are a few of the many topics students and scholars will examine as they travel from across campus and from around the world to use the collections at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. For…

Chef Shirley Cheng, a Professor of Culinary Arts at the Hyde Park, NY campus of the Culinary Institute of America, visited Harvard University Dining Services’ (HUDS) kitchens from June 3–6, 2017 to run its team of chefs through an intensive Asian cuisines training. Fourteen chefs received instruction in the techniques of the cuisines of China,…

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is pleased to announce that E.J. Dionne, the distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed columnist, will join the School for the 2017–18 academic year as a William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor. This is a joint appointment with Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)…

Common orthodontic problems such as crossbite, overbite, underbite, and crowding of the teeth can have a negative impact on a person’s physical appearance, dental function, and overall self esteem. To make a diagnosis and plan treatment, orthodontists currently take multiple x-ray images of the entire skull before, during and after orthodontic treatment. Part of the…

Last week, more than 200 participants from around the world gathered to learn about, discuss, and improve Harvard’s own open-source research data repository software, Dataverse. Dataverse is developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and used by researchers and journals at Harvard University and beyond to archive, share and receive credit for data.…

The Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) released its 2017 Education Deep Dive Report: Empowerment in Education. The report summarizes the proceedings from ALI’s Deep Dive event, a two-day intensive immersion with a focus on problem-solving and practical applications of knowledge. The 2017 Education Deep Dive was chaired by Professors Monica Higgins and Fernando Reimers…

A rainy day couldn’t keep the crowds away from Tango Night in Allston, a music and dance event organized by the Harvard Ed Portal and the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and featuring the Argentine band from the A.R.T.’s current production “Arrabal.” Instructors from Brighton-based dance studio Artango led over 200 attendees in a tango lesson,…

Annual award recognizes scientific accomplishments and service to the nation Cumrun Vafa, the Donner Professor of Science and world-renowned physicist, was among the recipients of the 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor earlier this month. Created in 1986 and today recognized by both the House and Senate as one of the nation’s most prestigious awards,…

The 2017 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformative discoveries in the field of cancer immunology. Collectively, their work has elucidated foundational mechanisms in cancer’s ability to evade immune recognition and, in doing so, has profoundly altered the understanding of disease development and treatment. Their discoveries have led to the…

Harvard University opened its first cross-disciplinary research center in Sub-Saharan Africa, building a new platform for African and Africanist academic exchange.  Working with its companion office on Harvard’s Cambridge campus, the Harvard University Center for African Studies Africa Office will lower barriers to research for African and international scholars across the continent and serve as…