Science

Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.

Smiling woman stands beside a large skull in a display cabinet.

Don’t Call Stephanie Pierce A Paleontologist

From competing in youth gymnastics to studying tetrapods, the Harvard curator has always chased her curiosity.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Steve Ballmer

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer boosts Harvard computer science faculty

Former Microsoft CEO supports 50 percent increase in faculty ranks.

Professor Ali Malkawi, the founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, welcomes participants to the challenge conference.

Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts challenge conference at Harvard

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts inaugural challenge conference.

Harvard arts and sciences enrollment, faculty growth

Highlights from Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report

Cherry Murray

Cherry Murray, dean of engineering and applied sciences school, to step down

Led school during period of rapid growth—and huge ambitions

Photograph by istock images

Harvard faculty for divestment hold public forum, meet privately with Faust

In a private meeting with University leaders and a public forum, faculty group pushes for divestment.

Gerald L. Chan

Harvard School of Public Health $350-million endowment

A transformative endowment gift from Gerald L. Chan and family

Sven Beckert

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

Muir (at right) with his daughters Wanda and Helen and a friend at Kings Canyon, California, in 1902

John Muir

A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Michael Rohan has developed a magnetic-stimulation machine that shows promise for the immediate treatment of depression.

Magnetic Waves show promise in treatment of bipolar disorder and depression

Researchers at Mclean Hospital develop a magnet that treats depression and bipolar disorder

by Erin O’Donnell

The image shows human-stem-cell-derived beta cells that have formed islet-like clusters in a mouse. The cells were transplanted to the kidney capsule (the fibrous connective layer surrounding the kidneys); the photograph was taken two weeks later, by which time the beta cells were making insulin and had cured the diabetes in the mouse.

Harvard's Douglas Melton creates functional insulin-producing human beta cells

Douglas Melton creates working beta cells from stem cells for eventual use in treatment of Type 1 diabetes.