Bolstered Dean’s Competitive Fund awards promising research
Awardees include faculty studying infection, Atlantic slave trade, and South Asia artisan practices
Academic Excellence
Nationalism, socialism, and migration
Natalie Behrends received an unusual present for her 10th birthday: a biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, the turn-of-the-century American labor activist.
Fly ball!
For more than a century, the fruit fly has been a workhorse of the biological sciences that has helped scientists to make fundamental breakthroughs in fields such as genetics and neuroscience.
Experiment asks: What helps trees resist climate change?
This April, one thousand red oaks will be planted at Harvard Farm. The species, native to New England’s northern temperate climate zone, is increasingly threatened by drought and heat.
The atlas maker of the microscopic world
Throughout the history of biology, numerous discoveries stemmed from observing living systems, but seeing the innerworkings of living organisms presents challenges.
‘Silicon Valley has seen a ghost’
To a packed audience, author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” talks real stakes of “superhuman” AI threats.
The oyster’s invisible architects
For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new Harvard research has found that these bivalves may outsource the work.
Inside the very hungry brains of preschoolers
Childhood is understood as a time to learn and grow. What Christopher Kuzawa’s research shows is that learning and growing are interconnected.
The art of College poetry
This year, Harvard College is home to one current and two former National Youth Poet Laureates.
Class curiosity spouts river thesis
Can a river be a living entity? Harvard College senior Hassan Looky, a joint concentrator in anthropology and history, is asking this very question as he focuses his thesis on the rights of the Yarra River (Birrarung) in Melbourne, Australia.
How does dopamine shape our choices? Thesis investigates
Neurobiology concentrator Sean Meng ’26 is fascinated by how individuals see the world. He first became aware of how differently people can experience the same environment while serving as a teaching assistant at a school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There, he met Elmer, a first grader with severe autism who was, for the most part, overlooked. After spending more time with him, Meng found that Elmer truly “was seeing the world in very different ways.”