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What makes a House a home? We asked two alumni working on House Renewal at Harvard.

The inaugural Climate Research Clusters grants—awarded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability—will provide more than $8.1 million to five ambitious projects that bring together faculty across Schools and disciplines to pursue concrete solutions to complex climate challenges.

A collaborative team of Harvard researchers representing the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design developed two climate systems that efficiently cool buildings, contain zero refrigerants, and use far less energy than traditional AC units.

Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, calls for "systemic and urgent disability inclusion" in climate resilience planning.

Harvard Medical School is working with faculty and staff to embed climate change and its impact on health in all four years of the MD curriculum.

Harvard Management Company (HMC) managing director Michael Cappucci discusses HMC's strategy for meeting the goal of transitioning the endowment portfolio to "net zero" greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

A team of Harvard-led researchers found that the company created remarkably accurate warming projections but continued to sow doubt about the climate crisis.

Drew Michanowicz, whose study identified 21 hazardous chemicals in gas stoves, joins the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Better Off podcast to explore the health risks of cooking with gas.

To help her home city of Bangkok adapt to extreme flooding, landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom MLA ’06 works with nature to design resilient urban spaces in vulnerable areas.

Chemist Emily Kerr PhD '22 is working to reduce the cost of redox flow batteries, which are less environmentally harmful and can store energy at a greater scale than lithium-ion batteries.

Leader in the field of nonprofit news, Chan is an award-winning editor and longtime mentor.

Distinguished journalist Sewell Chan AB '98 was chosen by his classmates to serve as the 2023 chief marshal of alumni.

Berry has made a bequest in gratitude for his Harvard experiences. 

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

For David Kwong '02, puzzles are magic

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

Philip Mote AB '87 says rolling out climate solutions calls for coordinated efforts on policy, investment, innovation, and a lot of that comes back to the choices we make. 

Karmon succeeds Philip Lovejoy as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Amy Huang ’17 wants to help us find new ways of feeding the world

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