Stem cell biologists win support for cancer research
Fei Chen and Ryan Flynn were honored for promising investigations into cellular mechanisms of the disease.
Research
Bioengineering a career in cancer therapeutics
Danika Rodrigues has been researching cancer therapies since she was a biomedical engineering undergraduate and master’s student at the University of Michigan. But it was working at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & Johnson, that convinced her that not only was cancer research interesting — it was what she wanted for her career.
How to restore trust in higher ed?
Throughout her Harvard College experience, Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator Ari Kohn ‘26 has explored how the mission of Harvard College, to educate citizen and citizen-leaders through a liberal arts education, is enacted and preserved. The motivation behind her senior thesis, “Citizen or Citizen-Leader: Civic Thought Programs and the Trust Crisis in American Higher Education”, began as a first-year student in the aftermath of the pandemic, when Kohn witnessed difficulties in defining what an undergraduate institution should be.
Harvard faculty recognized by the National Academy of Sciences
From rugby pitch to lab bench
Tiahna Padilla ’26 has never been afraid of a challenge. While working on her senior thesis, the two worlds she inhabited at Harvard converged through the development of a mobile artificial limb that gives unique insight into the capabilities of athletes’ muscles.
Starving the cancer, sparing the brain
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.
Can your pup match pitch? Scientists detail top talents for howling
Evolutionary biologist Erin Hecht on the ancient breed that can fine-tune according to surrounding sound
Proponents of gun rights, gun control want the same thing
Economics paper reveals common ground and tools with big potential to reduce harm
New space ‘archaeology’ uncovers billions of years of galactic history
Harvard astrophysicists developed a new method of “chemical archaeology” to reconstruct the history of distant galaxies by mapping the distribution of oxygen.
The geological roots of life on Earth
Andrew Knoll previews his new book on the 4-billion-year “conversation” between Earth and life — and recent interruptions by humans
A 500-million-year-old clawed predator rewrites the origin of spiders and horseshoe crabs
“I had just exposed the oldest chelicera ever found.”