Sponsored Research (FY 2010)

Income from sponsored research showed a 22 percent increase over fiscal 2009. This is all the more remarkable as sponsored research revenues had declined in 2009 for the first time in many years.

Part of the funding increase was due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). SEAS faculty members received 12 ARRA awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Energy (DoE). These awards totaled $13,977,048 to be spent from fiscal 2010 through early fiscal 2015. The majority, though, will be spent from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2012. Even without the ARRA funding, year-over-year increase in federal funding remained very healthy at 8.2 percent.

Federally sponsored research funding was not the only source of the overall increase; funding from non-federal sources rose from $5.8 million to $8.5 million (a 47 percent increase). Federal funding represented by far the largest contributor to overall sponsored research funding and accounted for 80 percent of such revenue in 2010, down from 85 percent in 2009.  SEAS faculty submitted 216 proposals for a total funding request of $198 million. NSF continued to be the most important federal (and overall) funding source, followed by DoD, NIH, and NASA. On the non-federal side, BASF was the largest source of research funding, representing 33 percent of the total non-federal spending in fiscal 2010, followed by GlaxoSmithKline and Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC).

Awards, Honors, & Milestones

Select Awards

• Harvard College Professorships (Lewis, Mazur, Shieber, Seltzer)
• MacArthur Award (Hau, Mahadevan, Schrag)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (Mahadevan)
• King Faisal Award (Capasso)
• George Ledlie Prize (Hau, Mahadevan, Brenner)
• Technology Review TR 35 Innovators List (Ham, Tarokh, Wood)
• Turing Award (Rabin, Valiant)
• Dan David Prize (Rabin)
• Nevanlinna Prize (Valiant)
  
• Nobel Prize (Bloembergen, Van Vleck (deceased))

Academies

National Academy of Engineering (NAE), as of July 2010

• Roger W. Brockett
• Federico Capasso
• David R. Clarke
• David A. Edwards
• Barbara J. Grosz
• Yu-Chi Ho
• Evelyn L. Hu
• John W. Hutchinson
• H. T. Kung
• Prof. David J. Mooney
• Dr. Cherry A. Murray
• Venkatesh Narayanamurti
• James R. Rice
• Frans Spaepen
• Zhigang Suo

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), as of July 5, 2011

• Steven Wofsy
• David Weitz
  
• Leslie Valiant
• James Rice
  
• Michael Rabin
  
• David Nelson
  
• Cherry Murray
• Paul Martin
• Charles Lieber
  
• John Hutchinson
• Evelyn Hu
• Richard Goody
  
• Federico Capasso
• Michael Brenner
  
• James Anderson

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as of November 2010

• Frederick H. Abernathy
• James G. Anderson
• Nicolaas Bloembergen
• William H. Bossert
• Federico Capasso
• Barbara Grosz
• Lene Vestergaard Hau
• Evelyn L. Hu
• John W. Hutchinson
• Charles M. Lieber
• Paul C. Martin
• Michael B. McElroy
•  Cherry A. Murray
• Venkatesh Narayanamurti
• David R. Nelson
• Anthony G. Oettinger
• Michael O. Rabin
• James R. Rice
• Patrick Thaddeus
• David A. Weitz
• Tai T. Wu

Milestones

From the invention of baking powder to the development of one of the first electromechanical computers to the first flight of a robotic fly, engineers and applied scientists at Harvard have and are continuing to make major contributions to the field.

Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index

2007 (Chronicle of Higher Education)

* An institution may appear more than once if the discipline is related to more than one department.

Top Organizations in Computer Science by Impact

According to Microsoft Academic Search, Harvard University ranks # 7 in computer science, based upon # of publications and citations (Papers and authors are ranked based on their in-domain citations; and for overall ranking, total citations are used).

Productivity Over Time

Harvard ranked # 1 among institutions in engineering based on impact (Data from Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007): Papers: 1067 (papers); 12,788 (citations); 11.99 (citations per paper).

http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/jul6-08_4/

In terms of citation impact, Harvard ranked second nationally in the category of Engineering and Computer Science in a 2002 analysis by ISI (for 1998-2002 data).