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Explore session recordings, takeaways, and slide decks from the 2024 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference.

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the 2024 Outstanding Alumni Community Award and Outstanding Volunteer Leadership Award recipients.

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.

Combining data, art, and nature, Bas Smets, an engineer and professor in practice of landscape architecture, builds urban spaces that are prepared for the climate of today—and tomorrow.

As CEO and co-founder of the impact venture Celeste, Leni Peterson R. MS/MBA ’23 aims to help companies mitigate water risks in their supply chains and enhance water stewardship.

People who follow this Planetary Health Diet have a lower risk of every major cause of death, including cancer, heart disease, and lung disease, according to a recent study by Harvard Chan School researchers.

Michael B. McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named the 2024 recipient of the William Bowie Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Geophysical Union.

Senior research fellow and wildfire expert Loretta Mickley explains how climate change contributes to longer wildfire seasons, what that means for health, and how to protect ourselves.

Replacing diesel school buses with electric school buses may yield up to $247,600 in climate and health benefits per individual bus, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The University reported a budget surplus, along with robust endowment performance, and pointed to investments made throughout fiscal year 2024 in key mission-focused areas in its annual financial report.

Gary Ruvkun PhD '82, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of microRNA.

Students, faculty, and researchers head into the Amazon rainforest to explore the region's intricate ecosystems as well as urgent threats to its economic security, environment, and public health.