Prof. Conor Walsh. File photos by Rose Lincoln and Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff

Harvard Scientists Return to Labs

June 12, 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/harvard-restarts-scientific-research/

Close to 2,000 faculty and staff from the FAS Division of Science and the John E. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS...

Steps for a Safe Return to Labs

June 8, 2020

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/planning-2020-21/checklist-for-safe-return-to-labs

As part of the University’s plan for a safe reopening, a limited number of researchers and lab personnel will be authorized to return to campus beginning as early as June 8th. Below are the steps that individuals returning to campus must take prior to entering Harvard... Read more about Steps for a Safe Return to Labs

Two Pandemics: SEAS/SCIENCE Community Conversation

June 2, 2020

A panel discusses long-festering wounds of racial inequities and possible steps forward

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/harvard-panel-on-george-floyd-and-racial-injustice/...

All Hands on Deck

May 6, 2020

Deans Doyle and Stubbs on the response of the Harvard scientific community

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/05/all-hands-deck

The global scientific community has sent a clear message in response to the coronavirus pandemic: It’s an all-hands-on-deck moment. Researchers across disciplines — from computer science...

State of the Division Presentation

April 21, 2020

These slides were presented as part of the State of the Division meeting held remotely on Tuesday, April 21, 2020.

New Suggestions Box

April 20, 2020

We value your input and feedback. Please visit the new FAS Science Suggestions Box to provide input on remote excellence for 2020, restarting research on campus, increasing efficiency or cost savings ideas, or anything else you might want to suggest. Suggestions can be made anonymously or you can provide name if you would like. We may reach out if we have any follow-up questions or need more information regarding your suggestion. Read more about New Suggestions Box

COVID-19 Update

March 20, 2020

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In aerodynamic performance, sharkskin model offers more lift, less drag

February 6, 2018

To build more aerodynamic machines, researchers are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the ocean.

A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers at Harvard University, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of South Carolina, has shed light on a decades-old mystery about sharkskin and, in the process, demonstrated a new, bioinspired structure that could improve the aerodynamic performance of planes, wind turbines, drones, and cars.

The research is published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface...

Harvard’s bionic leaf could help feed the world

January 31, 2018

As the global population rises toward 10 billion, the planet is headed for a food shortage, with some estimates saying supply will have to double by 2050 to meet demand.

The continued advance of agricultural technology — genetic modification along with new crop varieties and land-management techniques — will cover some of the increased demand. But such technologies will require a dramatic increase in the production of agricultural fertilizers, an energy-intensive process fed by fossil fuels and reliant on a robust manufacturing infrastructure: factories connected to rail and road...

At Harvard, new grants for climate solutions

January 31, 2018

Climate change poses two fundamental challenges for society: How will cities and regions adapt to the impact we can already see? And, how can society rapidly transform the way it now creates and consumes energy into a fully renewable clean-energy system?

Seven new research projects, awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, will use the humanities, engineering, science, and design to tackle these twin challenges all over the world, from hospitals in Boston to...

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