In a message to the Harvard community, President Alan Garber warns that NIH funding cuts will slow the discovery of new treatments, limit training opportunities for future scientists, and weaken America's standing as a leader in science.
From developing a better way to predict and prevent wildfires, to upcycling wool waste into building insulation, to convening insurance and climate change experts to address gaps in knowledge, five new interdisciplinary projects have received funding from the Salata Institute Seed Grant Program.
Zeyneb Magavi SPH ’03 partnered with Eversource to construct the first geothermal system built by a gas utility, charting a greener course for the industry while also preserving jobs.
Through ultralight solar-powered drones that can fly in the upper atmosphere, Harvard startup Rarefied aims to dramatically improve the accuracy of climate models and weather prediction.
Earth scientist Hong Yang, musician William Cheng PhD ’12, and computer scientist Narges Mahyar—all Radcliffe fellows—blend music, data, and visuals to increase climate change awareness.
Harvard PhD student Lucrecia Aguilar is studying how biodiversity loss affects lion-human interactions, aiming to reduce conflict and ensure the survival of both big cats and community livelihoods.
Developed by Carbon Counts, a company cofounded by Michael Libenson MBA ’96 and incubated at the Harvard i-lab, EverForest is a mobile game that plants real trees on users’ behalf.
The Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School launched Greenplexity, an interactive tool that helps countries identify their localized opportunities for green growth by supplying what the world needs for the global energy transition.
A new course at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aims to support professionals from across Ukrainian society in rebuilding their country, with people, planet, and resilience in mind.
The AI cluster at Harvard's Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence has been ranked as one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers on the planet.
Harvard has increased the size of its Green Revolving Fund from $12 million to $37 million, providing additional funds to Harvard’s Schools and business units to accelerate campus decarbonization.
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.
