June 24, 2009

Harvard professor on tour of duty in Afghanistan

Deployed to Afghanistan, Harvard professor of bioengineering Kit Parker serves as a major in the Army's 10th Mountain Division.

Kit Parker is a professor of bioengineering. But right now, Harvard's Cabot associate professor of applied science is serving as a U.S. Army major in Afghanistan with the 10^th Mountain Division. His job is to participate in missions, analyze them, and then help engineer future operations so that they can be executed more efficiently. Harvard Magazine profiled Parker's stateside bioengineering breakthroughs in January.

Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.

Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain...

The two birds will be on display at Harvard this summer.

Growing liver implants, mapping the sense of smell, and journalism at risk

Author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the world around us.

There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.