“…An important experiment for Harvard.”
When the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) gathered for its first meeting late last April, it was charged by not one, but two Harvard Presidents. Then President-designate...
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An unprecedented admissions year
Nearly 35,000 students applied to Harvard College this year for admission to the Class of 2015 entering in August. Letters of admission (and email notifications) were sent on March 30 to 2,158...
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Clues to camouflage
For years, camera makers have sought ways to avoid chromatic aberration — the color fringes that occur when various wavelengths of light focus at different distances behind a lens. But where...
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Christopher Stubbs is named dean of science at Harvard
Christopher Stubbs, the Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy and an accomplished experimental physicist whose work explores the intersection of cosmology, particle physics, and...
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Harvard launches new Ph.D. program in quantum science
In the middle of the 20th century, mathematicians, physicists, and engineers at Harvard began work that would lay the foundations for a new field of study, the applications of which would change the...
View ArticleVice Provost Rick McCullough to become Florida State president
Vice Provost for Research Rick McCullough, who fostered strong partnerships and helped grow the University’s research output over his near decade in the role, has been named president of Florida State...
View ArticleHelium shortage 4.0 makes its way to Harvard
Late spring is typically prime time for weddings and graduations, but this year a global helium shortage worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced retailers like Dollar Tree and Party City to...
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