Among the most recent and extremely successful global health initiatives is a seemingly obscure organization that took root in the hallways of Harvard Medical School laboratories almost ten years ago—Seeding Labs.
With the rise of the field of genetics, our genes and the environment we grow up in became polarized forces, competing determinants of who we are. Ongoing scientific research, however, continues to illuminate the fact that they are not two opposing forces; instead, they continuously interact as they drive the development of living organisms.
Collaborative efforts between the Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Partners HealthCare founded the non-profit institution, the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI). In this joint venture headquartered near the Boston University campus, industry meets academia to advance clinical research in multiple areas, from medical device trials to quality of life assessments.
By Jeffrey Atwood ’13, THURJ Staff Since his youth, Adam Cohen’s passion has been for scientific inquiry. Growing up in Manhattan, the current Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at Harvard remembers picking up pieces of electronics from the garbage, taking them home, and trying to fix them. In seventh grade, he enrolled in a graduate level course in electronics, which [...]
By Jen Gong ’12, THURJ Staff Many of us believe we are more impartial than our historic predecessors, whether it be in matters of race, gender or ethnic equality. Landmark achievements like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the end of apartheid or the rise of a black president to the highest office in America might seem like enough reason [...]
Harvard students have a lot of answers to the question “What did you do over the summer?” Some may say “intensive language study in Japan”, “an internship with Goldman Sachs in NYC” or “planning events in the White House,” but there are about one hundred who will always enthusiastically reply “PRISE!”
An interview with Prof. George Church, who shares his broad experiences in the biological sciences and discusses his most recent project, the Personal Genome Project.
A discussion on the current state of climate change research at Harvard, including the use of chemical modeling and satellite imagery.
Every subfield exists to serve its own purpose as well as to augment progress in other subfields. One of the newest embodiments of this mantra is Harvard’s very own Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS).
Professor Robert Wood’s creations have been featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, on two Discovery Channel series, and in Time Magazine. When you walk into his Harvard lab at 60 Oxford Street—a building beyond the boundary of most undergaduates’ travels—you find yourself amid the hustle and bustle of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs peering through microscopes at actuators, using lasers to create air frames, and tweaking mechanical wings and transistors.
