From views on religion and gender to the right way to research noodles, Harvard students describe a time their minds were changed through learning and conversation.
Shriya Srinivasan merges art and technology to create a smartphone app that translates dancers' movements into tactile experiences, making performances accessible for visually and hearing-impaired audiences.
Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker AB '81 discusses efforts to boost community engagement and to prepare for the 2026 presidential search.
The American Repertory Theater's new Lavine Learning Lab provides public high school students with unique theater experiences that promote inquiry, empathy, and lifelong appreciation of the arts.
Pacto Medical, a startup cofounded by Ian Speers MPH ’23 and incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs, has developed a compact prefilled syringe that lowers costs while also reducing environmental impacts.
A Harvard Law School course challenges students to embrace the power of opposites to navigate complex tensions in life, law, and leadership through empathy, collaboration, and integrated thinking.
In her first year as Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hopi Hoekstra launched efforts to promote dialogue in disagreement, an investment in creating a vibrant and inclusive academic community for students, faculty, and staff.
Through contributions for the Native American Program at Harvard University, Mary and Allen Ivey EdM ’57, EdD ’59 continue a lifelong connection with Indigenous communities and inspire others to support opportunities for Native American students.
Experts on public policy and civic engagement considered many options during a talk hosted by Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In celebration of their 30th Harvard College reunion, Class of 1994 alumni Alfred and Rebecca Lin contributed to critical new efforts on civil discourse and artificial intelligence within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Rising nearly as high as the surrounding buildings and featuring more than 1,400 native plants, Polinature—a temporary garden installation at the Harvard Graduate School of Design—demonstrates a low-cost, low-tech, off-the-grid solution to provide cooling relief to urban areas from acute summer heat.
The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability announced a fourth round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. The projects include research into upcycling dairy waste, the role of autoworkers in the EV transition, measuring the effectiveness of climate adaptation strategies, and more.
The 2023-2024 Harvard Sustainability Report details how the University is leveraging its research and thought leadership to accelerate action toward a healthy, sustainable, fossil fuel-free future.
Harvard engineering students partnered with NASA to design a low-cost, low-altitude blimp capable of tracking emissions from factories, traffic, and wildfires and transmitting the data in real time.
Professor and pulmonologist Mary Rice discusses her new role as the director of Harvard Chan School's Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) and how she's thinking about the intersection of health and climate.
A grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a new center, based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, that aims to bring sustainable climate solutions to heat stressed, low-income communities around the globe.
Merging economics with educational psychology, Chika Okafor PhD ’24 finds that emphasizing solutions may offer a better way to communicate about climate change and help address inequality.
