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Psychologist Marc Hauser returns to Harvard, but not to teaching
Professor of psychology Marc Hauser will be returning to Harvard this fall—but not to teaching. At a psychology department meeting this spring, “a large majority” of the faculty voted against allowing him to teach courses in the coming academic year, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) spokesman Jeff Neal.
Harvard Appoints Interim Winthrop House Leaders
News more News A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Harvard Faculty Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
As Harvard invests in expanding engineering and applied sciences—in the growth of the faculty ranks at the eponymous school, and in such stand-alone entities as the enormous Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—its professors and affiliated scientists increasingly pursue both their research and classroom work, and commerce: seeding and starting new enterprises based on their discoveries.
Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal
Fifty years after the first moon landing, it’s still hard to place the importance of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s initial lunar footsteps in the context of human history. There’s the feat itself, but also the centuries of scientific discoveries that made spaceflight possible.
Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovated
Two years after commemorating its seventy-fifth anniversary, Houghton Library will have something else to celebrate before its eightieth: the largest renovation project in its history. Though a plan to revamp the library—Harvard’s principal repository for rare books and manuscripts (see “An ‘Enchanted Place,’” March-April 2017, page 36, on the anniversary exhibition)—has long been simmering, the project’s timing was spurred by a donation of both books and money from Peter J.
Clay-Modeling African Design exhibit
Clay artworks are as varied as the populations of the world: “There are dozens of different typologies of clay,” says Clowes professor of fine arts Suzanne Blier, corresponding to different colors and textures found throughout the earth’s river banks.
Engineers demonstrate first room-temperature semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz radiation
Cambridge, Mass. -- May 19, 2008 -- Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays. The breakthrough in laser technology, based upon commercially available nanotechnology, has the potential to become a standard Terahertz source to support applications ranging from security screening to chemical sensing.
Want a Solar-Powered Home? Here's a New Battery That Won't Ignite
If you dream of an off-grid house powered by the sun, plan on a battery to store energy for cloudy days—ideally, one that won’t catch fire. Harvard researchers might have just the fix. In the race to build the battery of the future, they’re unveiling a unique option. They say their flow battery is the first made with cheap, non-toxic, non-corrosive, non-flammable, high-performance materials. “It is a huge step forward.
Using science to create the perfect brisket
Peyton Nesmith G3, teaching fellow for ES96, makes final preparations prior to the taste test between the brisket cooked in the commercial competitor and the one cooked by the Harvard smoker. Students in ES96 (Engineering Problem Solving and Design) are asked to tackle a specific design problem for a real client. In Prof.
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