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Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship Deadline

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Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship Deadline: March 8, 2018 by 5:00PM Award Amount: Up to $50,000 Eligible Applicants: FAS and SEAS assistant, associate and tenured faculty; professors in residence and professors of the practice are also...

Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund Deadline

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Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund Deadline: March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Eligible Applicants: Individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that...

As climate changes, so does wine

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If you want to buy good wine, Elizabeth Wolkovich says, you’re going to want to stop looking at labels and just listen to your taste buds. An assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Wolkovich is a co-author of a new study that suggests...

Harvard research explores impact of coral restoration

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Spending hours a day diving around the coral reefs off St. Croix might sound like the stuff of a dream vacation, but for Annie Opel ’17, it was serious business. Opel spent much of her Virgin Islands adventure on thesis research that shows that efforts to...

Science photos capture world in different light

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Images captured by Harvard researchers often blur the boundary between art and science. From high-powered microscopes to technology that can render biological tissue transparent, new tools are revealing the world in unexpected and compelling ways...

Mathematicians work to expand pictorial language into other fields

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A picture is worth 1,000 words, the saying goes, but a group of Harvard-based scientists is hoping that it may also be worth the same number of equations. Pictorial laws appear to unify ideas from disparate, interdisciplinary fields of knowledge, linking...

At Harvard, new grants for climate solutions

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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...

Harvard’s bionic leaf could help feed the world

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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...

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

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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...

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network – Collaborative Science Awards

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network – Collaborative Science Awards Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent: April 3, 2018 by 2:00PM ESTAward Amount: $350,000 per year for three yearsTarget Applicants: Small group collaborations...

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network – Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network – Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards OSP Deadline: April 10, 2018Sponsor Deadline: April 17, 2018 by 2:00PM Award Amount: $500,000 per year for five yearsTarget Applicants: Applicants...

American Diabetes Association – Pathway to Stop Diabetes: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline

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American Diabetes Association – Pathway to Stop Diabetes Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: April 2, 2018 by 12:00PM Career stage: Early career researchers (including postdoctoral fellows) or established investigators new to diabetes research Eligible...