Research
Students Perform Better When Paid
Providing financial incentives for positive behavior can lead to higher test scores among adolescents.
EPA Grants Go to Harvard, MIT
Harvard and MIT researchers received $2.1 million in grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last Thursday to study the effects of climate change on public health and local ecosystems.
Harvard To Institute Research Ethics Training
Harvard has instituted a new policy that requires all science students conducting research to receive ethics training, University officials say.
New HSPH Office To Help Research Proposal Process
With the recent creation of a separate office for research strategy, the Harvard School of Public Health was well equipped to handle the January revisions to the National Institutes of Health grant application process.
Centers in Africa Fight HIV/AIDS
Earlier this year, Harvard’s two HIV/AIDS research centers in Africa each spun off limited liability companies, a strategic move that will open up funding streams that had previously been off-limits due to federal restrictions. For the 120,000 AIDS orphans living in Botswana, the potential funding increase could speed further advances in research as well as public health initiatives.
Study Recommends Limiting Saturated Fats
A study published yesterday in PLoS Medicine and led by Dariush Mozaffarian, an assistant professor of epidemiology at HSPH, showed that replacing saturated fats with a higher than previously recommended percentage of polyunsaturated fats was associated with a significantly decreased risk of coronary heart disease, the leading killer of adults in developing countries.
Lecture at the Semitic Museum
Several experts on archaeology from Harvard and institutions around the world came together yesterday evening at the Semitic Museum to deliver a lecture entitled "Writing History from Material Objects: New Light on Late Bronze Age Glass in Egypt and Mesopotamia."
A Golden Levitating Act
Hamsa Sridhar ’12 works with levitating gold on a regular basis—but the work is neither magical nor costly.
Harvard Graduate Student Wins MIT Award
After winning the 2010 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday, inventor Erez Lieberman-Aiden will now have an additional $30,000 to pour into his creative efforts.
Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Start Early
Childhood obesity prevention programs, often targeted at children ages 8 and older, should begin efforts to curb obesity at infancy or even earlier, according to researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.
New Lab Device Improves Experiment Speed
A group including several Harvard researchers has developed a new microfluidic screening device that can run biochemical experiments on a much smaller, faster, and more cost-effective scale.
Sophomore conducts research levitating micro-particles.
Hamsa Sridhar ‘12 is conducting research at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences that seeks to levitate gold-coated micro-particles. The research made the front cover of the journal Nature.
Study Links Gene with Aggressive Prostate Cancer
A team of Harvard researchers recently identified a gene that may play a direct role in developing aggressive prostate cancer—a discovery they said could lead to a more accurate technique to test for the disease.
