Science & Health

A $75 million gift from Ernesto Bertarelli will create a new atrium and name an iconic campus building at Harvard Medical School.

The Cummings Foundation has committed $50 million for an alliance between Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

The co-directors of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative discuss a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

A research alliance provides significant funding for faculty-led research at the Harvard Quantum Initiative.

Harvard Medical School researchers at Boston Children's Hospital are developing two new candidates for protein-based vaccines against COVID-19.

Harvard graduate student Yekaterina "Kate" Shulgina has developed a computer program that can read the genome sequence of any organism and then determine its code.

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences found large quantities of previously undetectable compounds from the family of chemicals known as PFAS in six watersheds on Cape Cod.

A decade ago, Majla Custo ’10 embarked on an unlikely journey from Bosnia to Harvard. Learn how she set her sights on Mars and changed her life’s trajectory.

By creating a 3D map of the Milky Way, astronomer João Alves, whose fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was made possible through a planned gift, made a discovery that overturned the common conception of how stars are born and compelled scientists to rethink the framework of our galaxy.

The Harvard-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) is providing funds for 62 research projects focused on various aspects of the pandemic.