This year’s projects will spotlight key topics, including green tech and artificial intelligence, sustainable food systems, Indigenous connections to land, the intersection of climate with the humanities and the social sciences, and socially just climate solutions.
In a new course offered jointly by Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, students explore the “rights of nature,” culminating in a mock Massachusetts constitutional convention.
A gift from the collection of Philip A. Straus AB ’37 and Lynn G. Straus includes 62 prints and two paintings by Edvard Munch, as well as one print by Jasper Johns.
In an unprecedented collective scientific effort, researchers from Harvard and three other universities have launched a 10-year study of the Los Angeles fires.
The Harvard Move Lab has developed a wearable robotic device aimed at helping stroke survivors and people with other movement impairments regain mobility and independence.
James J. "Jim" Husson, currently the vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Pennsylvania, will officially assume his Harvard role on April 1.
A brain cell study by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital shows that a genetic mutation expands over decades and becomes rapidly toxic later in life.
Harvard scientists developed a slug-inspired adhesive for dental care, which soon may be the answer to managing painful oral lesions associated with chronic inflammatory conditions and sealing wounds in the mouth.
Inspired by a dog’s nose, researchers at Harvard have developed an affordable air quality sensor called Project Air that can detect and discern indoor pollutants with nearly 100 percent accuracy.
After experiencing Hurricane Katrina firsthand, Radcliffe Fellow Rob Verchick JD ’89 is examining the human-fueled disasters facing our oceans and how scientists, politicians, and the public can help.
As part of the Harvard-China Project, Emily Xing ’27 was one of three engineering students who traveled to Beijing tolearn how the country is developing and deploying renewable energy.
At Harvard Forest, ecologist Neil Pederson and Ramapough Lenape tribe member Keshia De Freece Lawrence blend research with Indigenous knowledge to protect vulnerable habitats.
According to a study from Harvard, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, and University College London, air pollution from burning fossil fuels was responsible for about one in five deaths worldwide in 2018—significantly higher than previous research suggested.
New faculty appointed to Harvard Chan School’s Department of Environmental Health are studying how a variety of environmental factors—including an individual’s total environmental exposures to toxins over the course of their life, the microbes in engineered water systems, and climate-related extreme weather events—can impact health.
Through research originating at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School, an international team has discovered a novel strain of cyanobacteria—nicknamed “Chonkus”—that could help sequester carbon from oceans and factories.
Three Wyss Institute projects aim to reduce global pollution by developing a cheaper, more reliable test to detect toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); creating a non-toxic alternative to PFAS inspired by the surface of lotus leaves; and using an enzyme found in soil to break down PET plastic and turn it into a biodegradable material that can be used to make new, eco-friendly plastics.
