Find Jiani Johnson’s fifth-grade yearbook, and you’ll find a surprising response to the question of what she wanted to be when she grows up: a bioengineer. She liked tinkering and building things, and she always wanted to help people, making bioengineering the ideal interdisciplinary collaboration.
In the Kanarek Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital, Alan Wong, who will receive his PhD in biological and biomedical sciences this May from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, focuses on developing new approaches to treat pediatric leukemia while reducing harm to the brain.
Tutorial’s enduring impact marks a century of training future scientists and physicians
Evolutionary biologist Erin Hecht on the ancient breed that can fine-tune according to surrounding sound
Harvard scientists describe promise and peril of accelerating technologies
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was awarded the 2026 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, a recognition for public figures who excel at pursuits held in high regard by the founding father.
Researchers detail connections between mid-20th-century America’s drug culture and covert CIA experiments
Economics paper reveals common ground and tools with big potential to reduce harm
A total of six Harvard faculty were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this week, drawing financial support for research related to everything from political theory to works of historical fiction.
Harvard astrophysicists developed a new method of “chemical archaeology” to reconstruct the history of distant galaxies by mapping the distribution of oxygen.
Retelling 11-month occupation as America readies to celebrate its 250th