News Archive
Archive of past news items
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Computer scientist Ryan Adams wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
- $300,000 grant will support work on building new computational tools that exploit statistical inference
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Sharing design, in all its forms
- Massive fair highlights hundreds of great ideas that emerged in courses at SEAS this year
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Crime probe
- SEAS students help police assess anti-gang tool (Harvard Gazette)
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David C. Parkes awarded Harvard College Professorship
- Parkes one of five rewarded for excellence in teaching
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New undergraduate S.B. degrees in EE and ME approved
- Harvard College students now have the option of pursuing Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering S.B. degrees
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Using Green Beret tactics to win peace back home
- ES 96 course tackles real-world engineering challenges in Springfield, Mass. (New York Times)
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Loncar and Vase win 2012 Levenson Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Electrical engineer and head TF praised for devotion to instruction in the College
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"Warming hole" delayed climate change over eastern United States
- 50-year model suggests regional pollution obscured a global trend
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Slicing mitotic spindle with lasers, nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory
- Quantitative research shows key organelle of cell division to be more complex than previously thought
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Grad student Gairik Sachdeva wins Link Fellowship
- Will use the award to support his work on synthetic metabolic control for biofuel production
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Sujata Bhatia wins Marquand Award
- Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies lauded for her exceptional advising and counseling of Harvard students
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James R. Rice awarded the Harry Fielding Reid Medal
- Award is the highest honor granted by the Seismological Society of America
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How to become an expert tightrope walker
- Applied mathematicians take on the science of balance, determine the ideal amount of slack for a slackline (ScienceNOW)
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Radhika Nagpal approved for promotion to tenured full professor
- Computer scientist applies inspirations from biological multi-agent systems to computer and robotic systems
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SEAS receives grants from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
- From assessing hands-on learning to computer vision analysis to water policy, the awards highlight innovative pedagogy
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Elegant entanglement
- Research a key step towards quantum computers (Harvard Gazette)
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Zhiming Kuang approved for promotion to tenured full professor
- Climate scientist aims to understand the convective forces driving El Niño and the South Asian monsoons
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Tumor study reveals size limitations for new drugs
- Normalizing tumor blood vessels improves delivery of only the smallest nanomedicines
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Bubble, bubble, without toil or trouble
- In the 1850s, a professor at Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School invented baking powder, a replacement for yeast (Harvard Gazette)
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A data-driven war on crime
- Students in ES 96 use scientific tools to inform a unique combination of military tactics and police work (Nature)
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James R. Rice wins Louis Néel Medal
- Mechanics and geosciences expert honored for seminal contributions to strain localization, poromechanics, and friction
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Green Carpet Awards honor Abernathy and other SEAS members
- Harvard's Office for Sustainability to honor Abernathy's lifelong commitment to energy-efficient practices and celebrate staff and students for their green efforts
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Robotic design and production as easy as 1-2-3
- NSF grant funds team of researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Penn to create design and print-your-own robot technology
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Socially-minded projects abound at I3 start-up competition
- Fifth annual Harvard College Innovation Challenge recognizes top student entrepreneurs with six awards
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Robert J. Wood approved for promotion to tenured full professor
- Leader in the design, fabrication, control, and analysis of biologically inspired microrobots and soft robots collaborates across campus
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Nurturing the seeds of innovation
- From Cambridge to Silicon Valley and back again, Harvard’s resources and networks help students turn ideas into social change
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"Buckliball," an engineered buckling structure, advances folding materials
- Inspired by a toy, the collapsible buckliball represents a new class of 3D, origami-like structures
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Exporting America's future
- An op-ed by Venkatesh Narayanamurti on the future of American manufacturing and innovation (Los Angeles Times)
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How to teach the teachers
- A Q&A on innovative pedagogy with Eric Mazur (Harvard Crimson)
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I3 competition heats up
- A look at the 19 teams competing for $50K & 12 months of free office space in Harvard’s I3 Challenge (BostInno)
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Marko Loncar approved for promotion to tenured full professor
- Expert on nano-optics will further strengthen SEAS' teaching and research in electrical engineering
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Engineer Robert J. Wood to receive NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award
- NSF’s most prestigious award recognizes outstanding early-career research
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Metamaterials may advance with new femtosecond laser technique
- "Lucky" combination of chemicals and laser pulses enables high-resolution, 3D patterning for futuristic optical materials
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David C. Bell appointed Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Electron Microscopy
- Physicist also manages the imaging and analysis facility at Harvard's Center for Nanoscale Systems
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Joanna Aizenberg talks "extreme biomimetics" at TEDxBigApple
- Lively video from the February event describes biologically inspired engineering of new materials (TEDxBigApple)
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Reduction in U.S. carbon emissions attributed to cheaper natural gas
- Lower emission from power plants in 2009 was driven by competitive pricing of natural gas versus coal
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Metal nanoparticles shine with customizable color
- A new way to create and control color has implications for display screens and security tags
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Donhee Ham named an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
- Solid-State Circuits Society honors electrical engineer known for his work in plasmonic circuits and solid-state and biological systems interfaces
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In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life
- Production method inspired by children's pop-up books enables rapid fabrication of tiny, complex devices
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Katia Bertoldi wins Faculty Early Career Development Award
- NSF CAREER Award to support mechanical engineer's aim to create a new class of responsive origami-like materials
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"Flipped classroom" teaching model gains an online community
- The Peer Instruction Network, a new global social site for interactive teaching, launches at Harvard
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Street smarts
- Students develop hurricane response plans on Cambridge roads, gaining practical experience in computational science
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SEAS graduate student awarded Facebook Fellowship
- Gregory Malecha aims to use the fellowship to radically improve both the efficiency and the trustworthiness of modern software
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Harvard researchers to receive high-performance computing grants
- Projects will advance both basic science and applications, and accelerate development of exascale computing systems
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For cutting-edge biomedical materials, try corn
- Winter mini-course explores plant-derived materials for wound closures, drug delivery, and tissue engineering
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Designing in the human context
- IDEO workshop at SEAS pushes the limits of engineering design into psychology, marketing, and freewheeling creativity
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Physics at 2,500 feet
- Sharing his lifelong passion for flight, CNS manager T. Fettah Kosar teaches aerodynamics from the cockpit
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Early-stage venture fund launches in Cambridge, Mass.
- New resource will serve local students and alumni worldwide
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Mighty mesh
- Extracellular matrix identified as source of spreading in biofilms
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Femtosecond laser research wins SPIE Green Photonics Award
- Members of Eric Mazur's applied physics laboratory honored for innovative, energy-efficient research in photonics
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Stephen Chong wins Air Force Young Investigator Award
- Computer scientist honored for his work on integrating programming language and operating system information security mechanisms
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Hosang 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"
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Robert 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
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Harvard Tweets from Silicon Valley
- Real-time updates and commentary on the week-long Harvard trip to Palo Alto, California
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What 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)
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Reading life’s building blocks
- Harvard researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing (Harvard Gazette)

