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Comments 0Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have entered into an agreement with the city of Cambridge, Mass., to work together on sustainability-focused issues in the community. The presidents of each of the ...

BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Research Scientist Associate Professor Applications are being solicited for a full time research scientist at Boston Children's Hospital, the pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

A Harvard University researcher suggests that electric lighting in the evenings plays a disruptive role on our natural 24-hour body clock or "circadian rhythm" and affects our sleep. The report, published in the journal Nature, states that electric ...

After Harvard Business School last year cutback on the number of words required of MBA applicants, several other schools did the same, prompting us to write about The Incredible Shrinking MBA App . Well, it's shrinking again. The University ...

Scientists at Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory have created a robot the size of a fly that mimics the insect's flight and movements. The carbon fibre robot weighs less than 1g. Its wings are powered by electronic muscles allowing it, eventually, to ...

a collective of microscopic flowers are produced by dissolving barium chloride and sodium silicate into a beaker of water. The post appeared first on

In the third and concluding part of a series on Indian Americans who have won the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships this year, Arthur J Pais profiles Vivek Viswanathan. The Harvard alumnus says he wants to use the opportunity to influence others contribute to society. Part 1: Harvard grad, activist, Soros Fellow: Meet Amar Bakshi Part II: An Indian American's quest to reclaim his identity Vivek Viswanathan's father came to the United States in June 1972, during the turmoil of the Watergate ...

In a three-part series commencing today, Arthur J Pais profiles some of the winners of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. First up is Amar Bakshi, who fought and won a legal battle to uphold the freedom of the press in Zimbabwe and has studied at Harvard, John Hopkins and now Yale. Amar Bakshi, a Truman Scholar and now a Soros Fellow, was jailed a few years ago in Zimbabwe on charges of stealing government secrets. Officials there had become concerned, he said, over his ...

Umang Dua and Oisin Hanrahan dropped out of college to start Handybook, an online services start-up which is now going places. This is their story. If entrepreneurship is about solving a problem, Handybook, the brainwave of Umang Dua and Oisin Hanrahan, takes that to the heart. The start-up, which enables online booking of 'handy' services from cleaning to plumbing to painting, is spreading fast in New York, Boston and San Francisco. In conversation here, with co-founder Umang Dua, on what ...