News Archive

February 2012

"Flipped classroom" teaching model gains an online community

The Peer Instruction Network, a new global social site for interactive teaching, launches at Harvard

Street smarts

Students develop hurricane response plans on Cambridge roads, gaining practical experience in computational science

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

Harvard researchers to receive high-performance computing grants

Projects will advance both basic science and applications, and accelerate development of exascale computing systems

For cutting-edge biomedical materials, try corn

Winter mini-course explores plant-derived materials for wound closures, drug delivery, and tissue engineering

January 2012

Designing in the human context

IDEO workshop at SEAS pushes the limits of engineering design into psychology, marketing, and freewheeling creativity

Physics at 2,500 feet

Sharing his lifelong passion for flight, CNS manager T. Fettah Kosar teaches aerodynamics from the cockpit

Early-stage venture fund launches today in Cambridge, Mass.

New resource will serve local students and alumni worldwide

Mighty mesh

Extracellular matrix identified as source of spreading in biofilms

Femtosecond laser research wins SPIE Green Photonics Award

Members of Eric Mazur's applied physics laboratory honored for innovative, energy-efficient research in photonics

Stephen Chong wins Air Force Young Investigator Award

Computer scientist honored for his work on integrating programming language and operating system information security mechanisms

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"

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

Harvard Tweets from Silicon Valley

Real-time updates and commentary on the week-long Harvard trip to Palo Alto, California

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)

Reading life’s building blocks

Harvard researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing (Harvard Gazette)