Minnesota takes its history seriously. Its historical society was established in 1849, nine years before it became the 32nd U.S. state. But when Harvard President Drew Faust and faculty members visited St. Paul last month for the Your Harvard: Twin Cities event, the conversation focused on more recent times.
“If we consider the world over the past decade, we can see such sweeping and profound change in so many dimensions of our lives,” Faust told more than 250 alumni and friends gathered at the Minnesota History Center. “I believe you would be hard-pressed to find a decade in...
Powerful new technology may lead to novel therapies to prevent vision loss, blindness in those with diseases of the retina
Boston, Mass. — A research team from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear has successfully prevented mice from developing angiogenesis of the retina—the sensory tissue at the back of the eye—using gene-editing techniques with CRISPR-Cas9. Angiogenesis causes vision loss and blindness and is a feature of several degenerative eye conditions, including proliferative diabetic...
“That smells terrible,” said seventh-grader Miles Higgins as he poured bleach into a beaker filled with purple cabbage juice. The solution immediately changed color to pale yellow; holding his nose, Higgins leaned closer to observe the transformation.
Science, it seems, is occasionally stinky.
Powerful odors, the whir of a blender, and children’s laughter emanated from a room at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston recently as Higgins and six peers worked through a “Science and Cooking for Kids” lab. The hands-on program, now in its...
Ricardo Hausmann is interviewed by the Council of Foreign Relations
The misguided policies of President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, along with falling oil prices, have destabilized Venezuela’s economy and triggered shortages of vital supplies, says Ricardo Hausmann, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a former minister of planning in Venezuela.
Hausmann argues that it will almost certainly take new leadership in Caracas to introduce the market reforms and debt restructuring he says are needed. “A recovery would...
Boston Public Schools and Boston After School & Beyond have been awarded a grant by the Wallace Foundation to teach SEL to kindergarten through fifth grade.
On the website it’s called closing the opportunity divide, equating economic justice with economic prosperity.
In real life it means helping a young person who’s seen friends and relatives die young, who’s known poverty, drugs, violence, and even homelessness, realize his professional potential.
That’s the work of Year Up, the brainchild of Harvard Business School graduate Gerald Chertavian. Since it began in Boston in 2000, Year Up — a nonprofit program that helps underserved young people gain the skills and discipline they need to succeed — has trained and placed nearly 17...
