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Enter the grid

How the Crimson Grid, based here at DEAS, enables collaborative research to flourish at Harvard (NSF's Science Grid This Week).

New dean of Physical Sciences

Geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham has been named dean for the physical sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Under the sea

This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will work together without the aid of humans to make detailed and efficient observations of the ocean (Princeton University)

Photo finish

Graduate student Marcus Roper has received a fellowship from the Kodak Fellows Program

A warm glow

Potential applications of stopping light, a breakthrough technique first conducted by Lene Hau and her colleagues in 2001 (IEEE Spectrum)

New recruit

We are pleased to welcome Marko Loncar to our faculty

The road ahead

Calls for supporting a wide range of approaches to science education and research in Longwood, Allston, and Cambridge

Weaving barrels from DNA

A team of Harvard students designed a tiny container made entirely of DNA that could be used to deliver drugs or gene or protein-based therapies to specific tissues in the body (Technology Review)

In good company

Computer Science graduate student Emanuele Viola has won a (SIAM) Student Paper Prize for "Pseudorandom Bits for Constant Depth Circuits with Few Arbitrary Symmetric Gates"

Cool courses

The Crimson has picked ES 221: Drug Delivery, taught by recent arrival Debra Auguste, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, as one of the 15 courses to shop for '06-'07 (Crimson)

Good sports

Faculty and students from Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School's Engineering Technology program fabricated six plastic 'membrane stretchers' (SouthCoast Today)