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May 2, 2008

Robert Wood wins prestigious NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator program awards

Grants will support research on microrobotics

May 2, 2008

Minding the gap by land, van, and pixel

Undergrads devised a plan in ES-96 to keep the Harvard campus together as it expands into Allston

May 1, 2008

Win-Win for industry & academia

Chemical company BASF officially launched the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, based at SEAS (Crimson)

Apr 29, 2008

Barbara Grosz named dean of Radcliffe Institute

President Drew Fausts appoints Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at SEAS, has been appointed the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Apr 29, 2008

Energy efficient computing gets green light thanks to Microsoft

David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei and Mike Smith will develop a "dynamic runtime environment" to link power use and load (CNET)

Apr 24, 2008

Scientists study Arctic haze for clues to rapid melting

Atmospheric chemist and environmental engineer Daniel Jacob provides expertise on why "the Arctic is a melting pot for mid-latitude pollution." (AP)

Apr 24, 2008

Bioengineer describes the growing problem of IEDs and his efforts to study brain injury

Kit Parker discusses his ongoing fight to understand and one day treat brain trauma caused by improvised explosive devices (Technology Review)

Apr 18, 2008

Collaboration explained

The Spring 2008 issue of GSAS's Colloquy features "Engineering Gets Social," a look at how grad students collaborate across fields

Apr 11, 2008

I is for Innovation

Bright ideas shined more brightly thanks to the Harvard College Innovation Challenge. Undergrads took home $50k in prizes at an award ceremony (Crimson).