Speaking up for scienceFormer National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration administrator Jane Lubchenco described her four years in Washington, D.C., as difficult and frustrating, but said it’s imperative that other scientists follow suit to give science a voice in national policies. Read More…
1 day 41 min ago
From The Harvard Gazette
Toward a more competitive U.S.At an event at Harvard Business School (HBS) that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish U.S. economy — a move that may require a new definition of “competitiveness.” Read More…
1 day 2 hours ago
From The Harvard Gazette
The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government seeks interns to serve as Student Associates for the summer of 2013. Read More…
3 days 17 min ago
Refusing a ‘diminished self’Former Ethiopian judge and political prisoner Birtukan Midekssa, at Harvard as a Scholar at Risk, argues that her native land — with its heritage of religious tolerance and its innate appetite for liberty — is ripe for democracy. Read More…
4 days 1 hour ago
From The Harvard Gazette
By Ben W. Heineman, Jr. (This article first appeared on TheAtlantic.com, where Ben Heineman is a frequent contributor) The horrific death of more than 900 Bangladesh garment workers in the collapse of a building, following the death of 112 garment … Continue reading > Read More…
4 days 1 hour ago
May 14, 2013The uprisings that erupted across the region as of December 2010 have been the single most important sign of a region-wide malaise that was gnawing at the core of Arab countries for decades, signaled in its earlier stages in the 1980s-90s by the rise of mass Islamist movements that reflected widespread citizen discontent and challenged Read More…
4 days 6 hours ago
As threats from North Korea intensified this spring, Korean Peninsula experts from the Belfer Center provided insight and analysis. Read More…
4 days 8 hours ago
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki Al Faisal told a standing-room only audience at Harvard Kennedy School in April that his nation is investing huge sums in solar, wind, and nuclear energy to reduce domestic reliance on its oil reserves. Read More…
4 days 8 hours ago
"Researching Asian security issues has never been more topical,” Yvonne Yew said in discussing her work at the Belfer Center. Despite Asia’s economic growth, she said, “simmering tensions, territorial disputes, nuclear proliferation concerns, and military skirmishes serve to potentially undermine the region’s peace and prosperity. Read More…
4 days 8 hours ago
View Harvard social View Harvard Multimedia
About 17 Minutes Ago from @HarvardResearch
Economic and social change in U.S. cities and urban areas: Research roundup from @JournoResource http://hvrd.me/10Mu8gf
About 20 Minutes Ago from @Harvard
As #NASA works to repair the #Kepler telescope, Astronomy Professor Dimitar Sasselov discusses its future http://hvrd.me/188ucvY
About 41 Minutes Ago from @Harvard
Black hole captured in this @chandraxray photo is thought to be about 100 million times more massive than our Sun http://hvrd.me/10IAe13
About 1 Hour Ago from @Harvard
Precisely tailored, microscopic crystal 'flowers' grown in @Harvard lab http://hvrd.me/YQAmhE http://t.co/uH6yda4aFr
About 1 Hour Ago from @HarvardAlumni
Lecture: Richard Holmes on 19th-Century Balloon Flight at the Mahindra Humanities Center on 5/22 http://ow.ly/l1c6A
About 3 Hours Ago from @Harvard
Did you know that the @HarvardLibrary has a growing #StarTrek and science fiction collection? http://hvrd.me/109BJpc
About 3 Hours Ago from @GreenHarvard
Lighting the Way: Unlocking Performance Gains in Electricity Distribution and Retailing in India @HKS_BizGov - http://hvrd.me/10IwBZ6
About 4 Hours Ago from @Harvard
High schoolers get an introduction to field of public health http://hvrd.me/15Vn5Jx
About 4 Hours Ago from @HarvardResearch
Harvard scientists create fields of elaborate microscopic flowers in beakers of chemical fluid http://hvrd.me/12zZGZC http://t.co/xJ73zYRn6a
About 8 Hours Ago from Harvard
The black hole captured in this Chandra X-ray Observatory photo is thought to be about 100 million times more massive than our Sun - Read more…
May 17, 2013 from Harvard
Harvard scientists create fields of elaborate microscopic flowers in beakers of chemical fluid - http://hvrd.me/18O5LoR Read more…
May 16, 2013 from Harvard
The breakthrough technique that allowed scientists to obtain one-of-a-kind, colorful images of connections in the brain is about to get a Read more…
May 15, 2013 from Harvard
A team of scientists discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity - http://hvrd. Read more…
May 14, 2013 from Harvard
Of the thousands of flowering plants in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, only one, the lilac, is singled out each year for a Read more…
May 14, 2013 from Harvard
Students were awarded $30,000 and the grand prize in the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge for creating an online platform that Read more…
May 13, 2013 from Harvard
Before the new Star Trek film 'Into Darkness' opens, check out Houghton Library's growing Star Trek and science fiction collections Read more…
May 12, 2013 from Harvard
The second annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference examined the essentials of education - http://hvrd.me/11qNFc8 Read more…
May 11, 2013 from Harvard
Neighbors in space? The Small Magellanic Cloud is so close and bright, it offers an opportunity to study phenomena that are difficult to Read more…
