Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology at Harvard University, passed away on July 1, 2021, at age 69. Bestor—widely known for his scholarship on Japanese urban life, markets, and food culture—was a Faculty Associate since 2007, and joined the Harvard... Read more about In Memoriam: Theodore C. “Ted” Bestor, 1951–2021
Congratulations to Denitsa Baykusheva for receiving the Bronze Talk Prize at the "Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids' (LEES 2021) conference! Denitsa presented a talk about our recent spectroscopy work "Ultrafast renormalization of the onsite Coulomb repulsion in a cuprate superconductor". LEESis a conference series started in 1993 and mainly focused on spectroscopic probes of quantum matter. Check... Read more about LEES 2021 Talk Prize awarded to Denitsa Baykusheva
Teaching is a collaborative act, and the Pedagogy Fellows Program is by definition a community of practice. Every year, approximately 34 experienced and creative graduate students from 28 departments and programs across the FAS come together at the Bok Center to support their peers in their roles as undergraduate teachers by leading pedagogy seminars and workshops, consulting with Teaching Fellows (TFs), and developing resources on teaching and professional development. Over the course of the year, we meet regularly...
Ricardo Hausmann, Growth Lab research in Daily Maverick
The economist Ricardo Hausmann has set out very clearly what an economy like South Africa can do to work its way out of the current crisis. Hausmann and his team of MIT-Harvard economists developed an enormous dataset contained in theAtlas of Economic Complexity, freely available on the internet.
The concept of economic complexity holds that wealth is created not so much by one particular industry, but by a dense network of industrial...
The newly organized Galileo Project will use a three-pronged approach to replace unreliable eyewitness reports with reproducible scientific observations.
This year, Harvard Ophthalmology is honoring 
Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology at Harvard University, passed away on July 1, 2021, at age 69. Bestor—widely known for his scholarship on Japanese urban life, markets, and food culture—was a Faculty Associate since 2007, and joined the Harvard... 
