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Truck Hits Northwest Building, Causing Minor Damage and Temporary Street Closure

A food delivery truck hit the corner of the Northwest Science Building on Wednesday morning, causing minor structural damage and a temporary street closure.

Peabody Museum
Research

Harvard Researchers Reveal New Insights Into Human Bipedalism

Harvard scientists have discovered new evolutionary changes in pelvic structure that allowed the first humans to walk upright on two legs.

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Central Administration

Harvard Was Cleared To Get Some Federal Funds. Then DOGE Stepped In.

DOGE officials have used their control of a federal payment system to keep money away from Harvard — even after a judge’s ruling required the National Institutes of Health to let some grants start flowing in July.

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Research

HMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Patrol officials in February, denied lying to authorities about the contents of her luggage in a Thursday statement.

Harvard Office of Technology Development
Research

From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization

With their research in hand, they approached Harvard’s Office of Technology Development to license their invention for commercial use. Four years later, Schaefer and Feldhaus not only secured a patent, but also launched start-up company Rarefied Technologies to commercialize their invention.

Louise Leakey Talk on Lake Turkana
Museums

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey Talks Turkana Basin Discoveries at Peabody Museum

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved in Africa, presented a history of her family’s research in north Kenya at the Peabody Museum on Thursday.

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Research

Harvard Researchers Develop AI-Driven Framework To Study Social Interactions, A Step Forward for Autism Research

Harvard researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-driven framework to track and analyze how rats interact in social environments, offering a new tool for studying autism and other disorders.

Biological Laboratories
FAS

From the Seafloor to Outer Space: Marine Microbiology in the Girguis Lab

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology. His work focuses on the deep sea, studying the “linkages” between marine organisms and their environment, with implications for everything from space exploration to human health.

Peabody Museum
FAS

Human Evolutionary Biology Concentration Will Be Renamed This Summer

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the academic year rolls over — the concentration will now be known as Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution.

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City Politics

Fears Over Safety of Energy Facility in Brighton Will Lead City to Adopt New Regulations

Boston’s first Battery Energy Storage System, proposed for construction in Brighton at 35 Electric Ave., has generated a wave of resident backlash to underdeveloped regulation of BESS facilities, which state officials say are necessary to achieve carbon neutrality.

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Science

Biogen to Move Global Headquarters to Kendall Commons in 2028

Cambridge-based biotechnology company Biogen Inc. announced Monday that it will move its global headquarters to a new building in Kendall Square in 2028, consolidating its various branches and operations into a single “innovation hub” while drawing the company still closer to nearby MIT.

Harvard Medical School
Research

HMS Researchers Discover Key Protein in Activating Autoimmune Responses

Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a key protein in the human immune system that drives inflammatory and autoimmune conditions when it turns against the body.

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Research

Harvard Professor Paola Arlotta Receives Momentum Award from the International Society of Stem Cell Research

Harvard Professor and Broad Institute member Paola Arlotta received the Momentum Award from the International Society of Stem Cell Research, a nonprofit organization committed to promoting human health through “excellence in stem cell research,” for her work on neurological diseases and stem cell-derived brain organoids.

Astrophysics Center
Sciences Division

Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor.

Science Center Teaching Lab
Sciences Division

‘Science on Display:’ First Phase of Teaching Lab Renovations Completed in Science Center

Harvard completed the first phase of Science Center Teaching Lab renovations in January, refreshing existing lab spaces with glass walls and introducing collaboration spaces on the first and second floors of the building.

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