2010

Observation about motor learning could help with stroke recovery: Combination of advanced techniques in systems engineering, robotics, and neuroscience shows promise
Heat, moisture from Himalayas could be a cause of the South Asian monsoon: Climate scientists offer revised view of what influences water source for billions of people
Computer Scientist Yiling Chen wins NSF CAREER Award: Grant will support research on the strategic and computational foundations for prediction markets
Madix wins 2010 Gabor A. Somorjai Award: Honor from the American Chemical Society recognizes creative work in catalysis
Lene Hau named DOD National Security Fellow: Award from Department of Defense provides long-term financial support to conduct unclassified, basic research
Using magnetic toys, researchers tease out structures of self-assembled clusters: Less symmetrical and more complex patterns occur due to entropy
Digging into diamonds, applied physicists advance quantum science: Diamond nanowire device could lead to new class of diamond nanomaterials
Kit Parker receives New England Achievement Award, part of National Engineers Week: Bioengineer and U.S. Army major honored for always putting his research team and fellow soldiers first
Marriage of microfluidics and optics could advance lab-on-a-chip devices: Scalable and reusable optical detection system boasts the sensitivity of a large microscope in a much smaller, cheaper package
Erez Lieberman-Aiden wins 2010 Lemelson-MIT student prize: $30,000 prize is awarded annually to individual who has shown exceptional innovation and a portfolio of inventiveness
Michael O. Rabin wins Dan David Prize: Computer science pioneer shares $1 million prize for outstanding achievements in the field
David Mooney elected to NAE: Election is among the highest professional distinctions for engineers
Marko Loncar named a 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow: Honor recognizes exceptional researchers early in their academic careers
Evoking sustainability, striking photo wins top honors: Sung Hoon Kang and colleagues place first in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
Simple math explains dramatic beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches: Scaling and shear link morphology, genotype, and developmental genetics
Materials Scientist Shriram Ramanathan wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award: $400k grant will support research on photon-oxide interactions
Sorting device for biological reactions puts the power of a lab in a pocket: Microfluidic technology increases efficiency, reduces costs, and could be a boon for synthetic biology
Senior Yakov Berenshteyn receives 2009 SAME Award: $1,000 prize recognizes outstanding academic achievements by an undergraduate in engineering sciences
Margo Seltzer honored with McDonald Mentoring Award: Honor encourages and recognizes excellence and dedication to advising and mentoring at SEAS
SEAS to create new concentration in Biomedical Engineering: Enhanced curriculum will incorporate chemistry, biology, and engineering
Michael J. Aziz named 2010 MRS Fellow: Honor from the Materials Research Society recognizes distinguished research accomplishments and outstanding contributions
Gen Ed course brings together famed chefs and eminent academics: Collaboration by Alícia, chef Ferran Adrià’s foundation, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences aims to inspire students and advance kitchen science
Excellent teaching is in the Q: Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching honors teachers in SEAS across all concentrations who achieve Q scores of 4.5 and above
Eric Mazur wins special grant from Dreyfus Foundation: Special grant in the Chemical Sciences will support applied physicist's innovative teaching
Undergraduate innovators put imagination to work: Winners of the Harvard College Innovation Challenge (I3) developed classroom software, mobile gaming apps, and an e-marketplace platform
Cold atoms and nanotubes come together for the first time: Atoms spiral towards a charged carbon nanotube under dramatic acceleration before splitting apart
Exploring soft-matter physics from cell nucleus to flaky pie crust: A profile of applied physics postdoctoral student Amy Rowat
Weitz, Hu elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences: SEAS faculty join the 2010 class of new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members
Peter Rogers wins Julian Hinds Award: Honor from the American Society of Civil Engineers recognizes his contributions to the field of water resources development
Rolling out the green carpet at SEAS: Staff member Kate Zirpolo-Flynn and undergraduate Henry Xie '11 recognized with Individual Awards at first annual Green Carpet Awards
Rafael Jaramillo receives 2010 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award: Postdoctoral student who works with Shriram Ramanathan honored for his work on magnetism
David Weitz elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Election is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.
SEAS to be featured on "60 Minutes": Chef Jose Andres' visit to campus and the Weitz lab will be highlighted in a segment airing this Sunday, May 2, at 7 p.m. EST (CBS)
Computer scientist Radhika Nagpal wins Borg Early Career Award: Honor celebrates a woman in CS and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and contributed to her profession
SEAS likes CS in June: Three major computer science conferences will be held on campus in June, exploring computational complexity, electronic commerce, and information security
Michael Brenner named Harvard College Professor: Brenner’s Harvard College Professorship will help in his ongoing development of new courses and course materials
Law School's Zittrain to hold joint appointment with SEAS: Leading expert on legal and policy issues surrounding the Internet will hold joint HLS-SEAS appointment
Gu-Yeon Wei named Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering; appointed tenure: Wei's work focuses on high-speed, low-power digital and mixed-signal circuits
Inspired by cotton candy, engineers put new spin on nanofibers: Offering increased control and higher output, device could be a boon for industrial applications, from biocompatible materials to air filters
Pfister honored with Visualization Technical Achievement Award: Honor from IEEE recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research
Applied physicists create building blocks for new class of optical circuits: Scalable devices inspired by Nature exhibit customizable optical properties suitable for applications ranging from sensors to invisibility cloaks
Weaving customizable nanofibers, stretching the limits of materials: New technology has potential applications in tissue regeneration and high-performance textiles
Discovery in “pop” science reveals the elegant, complex way bubbles burst: Rather than simply vanishing, ruptured bubbles create rings of smaller bubbles in a cascade effect
Two SEAS grad students will get face time with Nobel Laureates: Ian Burgess and Masaru Tsuchiya selected to attend the prestigious Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
President Obama appoints Cherry A. Murray to oil spill panel commission: The bipartisan Commission tasked with providing recommendations on how we can prevent – and mitigate the impact of – any future spills that result from offshore drilling.
Two SEAS faculty selected for Frontiers of Engineering Symposium: Debra Auguste and Shriram Ramanathan among the "creative young engineers" honored by the National Academy of Engineering
Shape-shifting sheets automatically fold into multiple shapes: Relying on origami techniques, researchers show programmable matter folding into a boat- or plane-shape
Laser pioneer Capasso awarded Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis: International award for excellent research on the application or generation of laser light cites his fundamental contributions to the field
Matt Welsh promoted to full professor; granted tenure: Computer scientist develops and deploys sensor networks for real-world applications
SEAS graduate student wins best student paper at RSS 2010: Robotics Science and Systems conference recognizes Pratheev Sreetharan's research on robotic wings
By “putting a ring on it," microparticles can be captured: Silicon micro-ring resonator could help advance nanomanipulation
Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays: Advance in metamaterials leads to a new semiconductor laser suitable for security screening, chemical sensing and astronomy
SEAS grad students receive DOE fellowships: Emily Gardel will use the fellowship to examine how bacteria can generate electricity and Cassandra Freyschlag will study low-cost, energy-saving synthetic catalytic processes
Friend, Madix elected as Fellows of the American Chemical Society: Two SEAS affiliates are among the 192 ACS fellows who will be honored at the society's fall meeting
New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells: Bioprobes offer first intracellular measurements with a semiconductor device
Harvard and Australia join together to make water a priority: Two-year project will engage experts and build on existing resources to deliver a series of policy related forums
Graphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing: Extremely thin membrane, a mere one-atom thick, lives up to its acclaim as a "rapidly rising star"
SEAS faculty to light up the tube: Tune into shows on the Food Network and New England Sports Network (NESN) in August and September
Lene Hau named World Dane 2010: Lauded scientist, known for stopping and exchanging light, honored for making a special contribution to placing Denmark on the map
Five SEAS computer science students named 2011 Siebel Scholars: Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious graduate schools
Tiny flying bots benefit from car-like drivetrain: Added control could allow the ersatz insects to aid in search and rescue, agriculture, and environmental monitoring
Capasso wins 2010 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics: Honored for his "pioneering achievements in nanoscale physics and applications"
'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles: For the first time, pure particles in near pre-industrial conditions measured in Amazon Basin, revealing insights about clouds and climate
New effort to focus on grad education in applied computational science: Aim is to enhance teaching and learning and spur intellectual partnerships
Sponsors bring science & cooking lectures to a “hungry” public: Popular talks by world class chefs and faculty use food and cooking explicate scientific principles
Student-created sOccket honored with Breakthrough Award: A soccer ball that can create and store energy with a kick is lauded by Popular Mechanics
Grad programs across engineering and the sciences rank high: National Research Council rankings highlight the collective strength of Harvard and reflect the growing strength of SEAS
Going back to school will spur hydrokinetic energy development: A team from Hydrovolts and students from the Harvard College Engineering Society will collaborate to produce a variety of small floating turbines
"Heart-Lung Micromachine" for drug safety testing receives funding: $3.3 million grant from NIH-FDA could bring safe and effective new drugs to market sooner
Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s air indicate sharply improved combustion efficiency: Harvard–Tsinghua University study shows China’s progress towards highly publicized energy efficiency goals
SEAS computer science faculty to teach short courses for execs: January courses will address a growing need to keep managers up-to-speed in rapidly changing technology environments
SDR Lab receives $2.3M NSF grant for “Life on Earth”: Project will develop a multi-touch digital museum exhibit on evolution with cooperative learning activities
SEAS students sweep 2010 Collegiate Inventors awards: Current grad students and recent alumni win top prizes for innovations in tissue engineering, genomics, and intracellular probing
When light speed is too slow: Physics grad and former SEAS postdoctoral fellow Alex Wissner-Gross '07 awaits the day when the Earth becomes a programmable surface
Undergrads design 'sweet' catapults: Flinging candy provides a tangible path from theory to model to lift-off
Michael Tinkham, superconductivity pioneer, passes away at 82: Broad thinker advanced both the theoretical and experimental understanding of superconductivity
Mathematical model of red blood cells may predict risk of anemia: Joint MGH-SEAS study exploits analysis commonly used in physics to uncover new details of human physiology
Breaking the ice before it begins: Nanostructured materials repel water droplets before they have a chance to freeze
Methane-powered laptops may be closer than you think: SEAS materials scientists unveil tiny, low-temperature methane fuel cells
Zar Zavala '11 wins Rhodes Scholarship: Engineering and neurobiology concentrator and Crimson wide receiver receives the call on the field after Harvard-Yale game
Grad student Amanda Peters receives HPC Fellowship: Supercomputing award supports research on biological applications of high-speed processors
Found in translation: Otger Campàs translates biology into mathematics, physics into cooking, and hard science into beautiful simplicity
Capasso lab demonstrates highly unidirectional "whispering gallery" microlasers: Breakthrough elliptical cavity enables a wide range of applications in photonics
Asking the unanswered questions: Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium showcases student projects across science and engineering
At last, the edible science fair: Harvard students use imagination to stretch the limits of cuisine (Harvard Gazette)
"Magnetic sponge" could be new form of drug and cell delivery: New material, called a macroporous ferrogel, can be compressed by an applied magnetic field and force out drugs, cells, or proteins
Waves and the waggle dance, all in search of a quick chat: Holiday Lecture on the physics and biology of communication awes and delights with animal examples and demos
Digitized book project unveils a quantitative "cultural genome": Online tool developed by Harvard and Google can identify cultural trends across the centuries
Cherry Murray seeks impact for next-generation global leadership: Dean Cherry A. Murray among Women to Watch in 2010 (Boston Herald)
Mahadevan wins IIT distinguished alumnus award: Indian Institute of Technology Madras celebrates a graduate who makes math come alive (Times of India)
AHA notes work at SEAS among top research in 2009: American Heart Association highlights collaborative discovery from Kit Parker's Disease Biophysics Group
Stream of innovations will aid water security: John Briscoe says water security "looms as one of the great challenges of this century" (The National)
College apps, interest in engineering at all time high: Applications from students interested in engineering have risen considerably more than applications as a whole (Harvard Gazette)
David Malan asks students to "THINK BIG": CS 50 instructor, among a panel of rock star profs, asks students to submit programming ideas to improve the campus (Crimson)
Crisis in Haiti hits home at SEAS: Haiti native Harry Dumay, Associate Dean for Finance and CFO, says, "Where there is life, there is hope.” (Harvard Gazette)
Harvard undergrads "goin' mobile": How a group of seniors and their friends use their phones offers a glimpse of where consumer technology is heading (Wall Street Journal)
Typos mean big revenue for search giant Google: SEAS and HBS researchers estimate that revenue from typosquatting is nearly $500M per year (Bostonist).
Hamsa Sridhar ’12 floats above the fray: Math and physics concentrator, working in in the Capasso lab, gets her hands around quantum levitation (Crimson)
SEAS alum becomes coin-op king: Hank Chien '96 jumps and climbs his way to a record 1,061,700 points in the Donkey Kong arcade game (NY Daily News)
Debra Auguste writes letter to her younger self: Blog for the Science Club for Girls offers words of encouragement and wisdom that can only be gleaned from hindsight

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