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Harvard Math Professor Lauren Williams
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Harvard Math Professor Lauren Williams Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

Harvard Math professor Lauren K. Williams ’00 was named a recipient of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, the foundation announced on Wednesday.

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HMS Researchers Design AI Tool to Quicken Drug Discovery

Researchers at Harvard Medical School developed a tool that could use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery and development.

Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School
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AI-Exposed Workers See Earnings Gains After Retraining, Harvard Study Finds

Workers in occupations most exposed to artificial intelligence can earn substantially more after retraining, according to a new working paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Ph.D. candidate Karen Ni.

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FAS

Harvard FAS To ‘Significantly’ Reduce Graduate Program Admissions Amid Budget Tightening

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will admit new Ph.D. students “at significantly reduced levels” this year as Harvard shrinks its budgets in response to mounting federal funding pressures, according to a Tuesday email from FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra.

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Harvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer

A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize everything from medical research to finance.

Harvard Kennedy School
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Harvard Impact Labs Fund $25,000 Grants for Faculty Public Service

Eight University professors received $25,000 grants as part of their inaugural Harvard Impact Labs fellowships to launch social science projects in collaboration with public and private sector leaders.

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Researchers Release Report on People Enslaved by Harvard-Affiliated Vassall Family

A group of Harvard-affiliated researchers presented an extensive report Thursday on the people enslaved by the Vassall family, whose members were affiliated with the University and lived at the Longfellow House in Cambridge.

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Harvard Researchers Find Executive Function Tests May Be Culturally Biased

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive functioning abilities, challenging the accuracy of current measures in studies across different cultures.

Schlesinger Library Radcliffe
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From Chimpanzee Novels to Crowdsourced Astronomy: How the Radcliffe Institute’s 51 New Fellows Study the World

Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study welcomed its 26th cohort of fellows, who will undertake interdisciplinary research projects ranging from investigating the importance of human connection in an age of AI to studying indigenous birchbark bookmaking as a form of environmental protest.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
FAS

Harvard Researchers Say More Than 60 Percent of American Children Will Use Medicaid or CHIP

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health estimated that 42 percent of American children will experience at least one gap in health insurance coverage before they turn 18 in a study published on Wednesday.

Andrea Baccarelli at HSPH Convocation 2024
Politics

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism, even though experts say a causal connection remains tenuous at best.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
FAS

MethaneSAT Went Dark in June. What’s Next for the Harvard Scientists Behind It?

In March 2024, a state-of-the-art methane-detecting satellite — the product of nearly a decade of work in Harvard labs — soared into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. But a year later, MethaneSAT lost power in space, and its stream of data on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas went dark.

Mass General Hospital
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Harvard Researchers Develop Novel Early-Detection Tool for HPV-Caused Cancer

Harvard Medical School affiliated researchers recently revealed a new technique to help doctors detect head and neck cancers caused by strains of human papillomavirus up to 10 years prior to diagnosis.

Longwood Campus
Politics

Trump Uses Harvard Public Health School Dean’s Research to Link Tylenol to Autism

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli met in recent weeks with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’76 and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya to discuss the dean’s study linking acetaminophen to autism, according to a statement by Baccarelli posted on an official White House X account.

Harvard International Office
Politics

Harvard Stands to Pay Millions in Visa Sponsorships Under New Trump Order

Harvard could soon be forced to pay a $100,000 fee for every new worker the University sponsors through the H-1B visa program, part of an executive proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.

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