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February 2012

News Item"Flipped classroom" teaching model gains an online community
The Peer Instruction Network, a new global social site for interactive teaching, launches at Harvard
News ItemStreet smarts
Students develop hurricane response plans on Cambridge roads, gaining practical experience in computational science
News ItemSEAS graduate student awarded Facebook Fellowship
Gregory Malecha aims to use the fellowship to radically improve both the efficiency and the trustworthiness of modern software
News ItemHarvard researchers to receive high-performance computing grants
Projects will advance both basic science and applications, and accelerate development of exascale computing systems
News ItemFor cutting-edge biomedical materials, try corn
Winter mini-course explores plant-derived materials for wound closures, drug delivery, and tissue engineering

January 2012

News ItemDesigning in the human context
IDEO workshop at SEAS pushes the limits of engineering design into psychology, marketing, and freewheeling creativity
News ItemPhysics at 2,500 feet
Sharing his lifelong passion for flight, CNS manager T. Fettah Kosar teaches aerodynamics from the cockpit
News ItemEarly-stage venture fund launches today in Cambridge, Mass.
New resource will serve local students and alumni worldwide
News ItemMighty mesh
Extracellular matrix identified as source of spreading in biofilms
News ItemFemtosecond laser research wins SPIE Green Photonics Award
Members of Eric Mazur's applied physics laboratory honored for innovative, energy-efficient research in photonics
News ItemStephen Chong wins Air Force Young Investigator Award
Computer scientist honored for his work on integrating programming language and operating system information security mechanisms
News ItemHosang Yoon and Kitty Yeung win 2012 Analog Devices design award
Ph.D. candidates from Donhee Ham's lab lauded for "academic excellence and research promise"
News ItemRobert Howe named IEEE Fellow
Biorobotics expert honored for contributions to the electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession
News ItemHarvard Tweets from Silicon Valley
Real-time updates and commentary on the week-long Harvard trip to Palo Alto, California
News ItemWhat would pristine air mean for the climate?
Loretta Mickley, senior research fellow in atmospheric chemistry, asks what would happen if pollution and other aerosols were eliminated (NASA Blogs)
News ItemReading life’s building blocks
Harvard researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing (Harvard Gazette)
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