The Life Sciences Outreach program was featured in the Crimson, in an article that profiles programs that build partnerships between Harvard and local high school students. Susan Johnson, the Bok Center’s assistant director for socially engaged learning, co-leads the Life Sciences Outreach program,... Read more about Life Sciences Outreach featured in the Crimson

Some students worked on their comedic timing in a joke-writing workshop. Others took the pulse of their classmates in CPR training.

In its ninth year, Wintersession offered participants workshops on portraiture, city management, synthetic biology, data science, and more. Students flexed both their academic and creative muscles and picked up practical skills during the optional 10-day session leading into the spring term.

Even as climate change reaches new and terrifying levels, hope remains — but the time to act is now.

That was the message Professor Daniel M. Kammen brought to a lecture in the Undiscovered Science series at Radcliffe Institute on Monday. Even before he began his talk, “An Energy Plan the Earth Can Live With,” he took a moment to stress the problem’s scope.

“We are at a point where a call for ‘a just transition’ is more accurate than ‘an energy plan,’” said Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy and chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of...

The new Harvard Research Data Management website provides important information and guidance on a variety of Harvard resources that will help students, faculty, researchers, and administrators share, analyze, preserve,...