Cris Rothfuss, Executive Director of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and 2016 Harvard Hero award winner, has launched a bold, new cycling event to raise money and awareness for off-track high school students. Slated to begin in Seattle, Washington in the summer of 2017, The REAL Ride is a 3-month, 5,000 mile, off-road cycling…

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2017–2018 academic year through our annual open call. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend 2017–2018 in residence in Cambridge, Mass., as part of the Center’s vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek…

Christopher Van Hollen M.P.P. ’85 will join Harvard Kennedy School alumnus Jack Reed M.P.P. ’73 (Rhode Island) in the U.S. Senate next January after winning the seat of retiring Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski. Van Hollen served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives after 12 years in the Maryland General Assembly. He has called…

Karen Emmons was welcomed back to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at a festive reception held Nov. 2, 2016 in Kresge Cafeteria. Emmons, who began on Nov. 1 as professor and Dean for Academic Affairs, previously served as vice president for research and director of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute. She was a faculty…

Harvard Extension Entrepreneurship and Real Estate Association and Harvard Graduate Council are inviting you to celebrate the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day 2016 on campus of Harvard University on Saturday, Nov. 19. Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) is a global initiative with the mission to celebrate, support and empower women in business worldwide, which was initiated in 2014 by the WED Organization…

Exactly 50 years ago, on Nov. 4, 1966, a devastating flood swept through the city of Florence, destroying and causing significant damage to much of the city’s artistic patrimony. As soon as news of the disaster reached the United States, concerned scholars of Italian art and culture leapt into action to help save the precious artistic…

A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 28 percent. Clinton captured 49 percent of likely young voters’ support while Trump received 21 percent in a four-way race. Gary Johnson garnered 14 percent and Jill Stein received 5 percent, with 11 percent remaining undecided. Clinton…

Peter Berman, professor of the practice of global health systems and economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received the 2016 Carl Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association (APHA). Berman is a health economist with more than 40 years of experience in research, policy analysis…

Nicholas McGegan — long hailed as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent) and “an expert in 18th-century style” (The New Yorker) — is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. On Thursday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, he conducts Sherezade…

Open enrollment for people buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act begins Nov. 1, 2016 and runs through Jan. 31, 2017. A major change this year will be increased rates; premiums for the most common “Silver” plans will jump an average of 22 percent. Katherine Swartz, professor of health policy and economics, talked about the…

From helping to launch a nutrition program in Tanzanian villages to learning how the World Health Organization (WHO) develops global policies, eight Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students spent this past summer getting a taste of real-world public health. They all were awarded travel grants from the Maternal Health Task Force, part of the…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently awarded $250,000 to fund a new Weatherhead Initiative in Afro-Latin American Studies. The Center funds the initiative through its Weatherhead Initiative Research Cluster in International Affairs grant, which supports large-scale and groundbreaking research in the realm of international affairs. Three Harvard investigators will spearhead this new initiative: Alejandro…

On Oct. 20, Henry Rosovsky, Ph.D. ’59 received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Asian University for Women. The connection between the longtime academic and leader of Harvard and a relatively young women’s university in Bangladesh may surprise at face value, but exemplifies Rosovsky’s commitment to enabling humanity to reach its highest potential. Rosovsky…

Student leaders from across Harvard’s graduate and professional schools will gather in the Barker Center on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 for the second “Student Leader Convening on Addressing Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at Harvard.” In the wake of the devastating revelations of last year’s AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, this event…

Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D. ’91, Dean of Faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Karen M. Emmons, professor and Dean for Academic Affairs, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the National Academies announced today. Election to the NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of…

By age 95, people have a 50% chance of having Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the bad news. But Albert Hofman, new chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert in vascular and neurologic diseases, thinks that that sobering Alzheimer’s statistic will improve in the years to come. 1.…