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Environmental Science & Engineering - ESE PhD Committee Meetings

The faculty expect PhD students to meet with their research committees at least annually following the qualifying exam.  These meetings are for the student's benefit in order to connect with and receive better advising from their committee members. For ESE students the...

Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering - Committee on Higher Degrees

Environmental Science & Engineering - Committee on Higher Degrees (CHD)

Data Systems

COMPSCI 1650
2025 Fall

Stratos Idreos
Tuesday, Thursday
9:45am to 11:00am

We are in the big data era and data systems sit in the critical path of everything we do. We are going through major transformations in businesses, sciences, as well as everyday life - collecting and analyzing data changes everything and data systems provide the means to store and analyze a massive ...

Fluid Dynamics Across Scales

ENG-SCI 220
2026 Spring

L Mahadevan
Monday, Wednesday
10:30am to 11:45am

This course develops the principles of hydrodynamics from fundamental statistical and continuum viewpoints. Emphasis is placed on scaling laws, similarity solutions, singular behaviors, along with modern applications across the physical and biological sciences, from electron flows to geophysical flu...

Cold atoms and nanotubes come together for the first time

April 7, 2010

Atoms spiral towards a charged carbon nanotube under dramatic acceleration before splitting apart

Alumni profile: Sam Kesner, Ph.D. ’11

June 21, 2018

Carbon-fiber epoxy honeycombs mimic the material performance of balsa wood

June 25, 2014

Harvard engineers use new resin inks and 3D printing to construct lightweight cellular composites

Finding the line between scientist and soldier

April 15, 2010

Q&A with bioengineer Kit Parker (GSAS Colloquy, Spring 2010)

Computer scientists identify Yelp security leak

November 3, 2011

Weakness in social media site, exposing users’ personal data, has been corrected

Testing the power of stem cell-derived heart muscle cells

February 16, 2016

A study by researchers at SEAS offers a new way to test heart muscle cells made from stem cells and destined for cardiac therapy.

SEAS Tours (Undergraduate only)

Alumni profile: Meeta Gupta, Ph.D. ’09

May 29, 2018

The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed

November 24, 2009

By stretching a foam ribbon and dissecting leaves, a mathematical model emerges

Looking for a few good robots

January 11, 2016

Soft Robotics Competition seeks entries

illustration of time lens

An on-chip time-lens generates ultrafast pulses

November 16, 2022

New device opens the doors to applications in communication, quantum computing, astronomy

An ocean of concern

January 28, 2014

Joint program withUniversity of São Paolo gauges threats to cities from rising sea level

Nurturing the seeds of innovation

March 27, 2012

From Cambridge to Silicon Valley and back again, Harvard’s resources and networks help students turn ideas into social change

David Andrade chisels a block of wood

Branching out their engineering skills

January 31, 2023

SEAS students build Japanese wooden boat during winter session