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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.

George Daley
Research

Harvard Medical School to Cut 20 Percent of Research Spending, Dean Says in Annual Address

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 said the University’s central administration had instructed him to cut spending on the Medical School’s research enterprise by at least 20 percent by the end of the fiscal year in his annual State of the School address Wednesday morning.

Harvard Medical School Gordon Hall
Research

Two Weeks After Court Ruling, Harvard’s Researchers Are Still Waiting for Grants

Nearly two weeks after a federal judge ruled the Trump administration’s freeze on Harvard’s federal funding was unconstitutional, Harvard’s researchers are still waiting to get their money back.

Officers in T-Station after Shooting
Breaking News

Shots Fired on MBTA Train Near Harvard Square, Harvard Lifts Instruction To Shelter in Place

Police responded to reports of gunshots at the Harvard Square train station shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, according to a series of alerts from the Harvard University Police Department. A shelter-in-place order to Harvard affiliates was lifted at 3:19 p.m.

back to labs
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.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Research

Harvard Scientists to Help Lead NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study how water and other molecules form in space and may reach planets like Earth.

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.

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.

Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories Entrance
University

It Could Take Lifetimes To Catalog the Harvard Zoology Museum’s Collections Online. AI Tools Might Help.

The Museum of Comparative Zoology holds over 21 million specimens from its more than 150 year history, which could take lifetimes to catalogue manually, but researchers are considering the applications of artificial intelligence.

11 Divinity Avenue
FAS

Harvard Researchers Discover Origin of Indo-European Language Family

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in a study published on Feb. 5 in Nature journal.

Math Students in Science Center
College

Math 55 to Hold In-Person Midterm in Shift from Past Semesters

Freshman math course Mathematics 55B: “Studies in Real and Complex Analysis” will require a 75-minute in-person midterm exam later this month, in a change from past semesters.

The Nobel Prize Winner
Advising

Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus ’51 Remembered as Attentive Mentor, ‘Pioneering’ Chemist

Martin Karplus ’51 developed ground-breaking computer models to study chemical reactions and molecular dynamics, mentored hundreds of scientists, and won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But his love for the sciences began with another discipline — biology.

Redefining Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Graduate School of Education

‘Be Bold’: Lead Educators Discuss Changing Role of Superintendent Under Trump

Education leaders discussed the changing role of the superintendency and what this means for the American education system in light of Donald Trump’s reelection at a Harvard Graduate School of Education panel Thursday evening.

Harvard Herbaria
Research

Harvard, UMiami Researchers Debunk Ecuador Mass Extinction Event in New Study

Scientists debunked a widely accepted mass extinction of 90 plant species in Ecuador’s Centinela cloud forests in the 1980s, per an October research paper published in Nature Plants.

Final Sprint IOP Forum
College

Pollsters Discuss ‘Bro Vote,’ Gender Gap at IOP Forum

One week before the 2024 election, several political operatives and two Harvard students discussed the state of the race at an Institute of Politics forum Tuesday evening.

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