Quantitative research shows key organelle of cell division to be more complex than previously thought - By Mureji Fatunde '12 - : Caroline Perry , (617) 496-1351 - The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cel

Harvard study finds circumpolar rivers most responsible for high levels of mercury in the Arctic - The Lena River delta.

Highlights from a year of innovative teaching, breakthrough research, inventive student projects, and global impact - SEAS alumna Joanne Chang '91, owner of Flour Bakery & Cafe, prepared the enormous cake for Harvard's 375th birthday party in October.

Massive fair highlights hundreds of great ideas that emerged in courses at SEAS this year - By Mureji Fatunde '12 and Caroline Perry - - Gye Hyun Baek '13 and Madalina Persu '13 exhibit their ES 50 project with course assistant Leonard Kogos '12, right.

50-year model suggests regional pollution obscured a global trend - : Caroline Perry , (617) 496-1351 - Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the

Cambridge, MA - For the last 1000 days the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood.

NSF grant funds team of researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Penn to create design and print-your-own robot technology - April 3, 2012 - An ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced is being funded by a $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Cambridge, MA - The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history.

Students from across the University, and the community beyond, bring diverse expertise to a creative exercise - Participants in the workshop offered definitions for the term "design," settling on "the process of observing a problem in the worl

$300,000 grant will support work on building new computational tools that exploit statistical inference - Ryan Adams, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has won a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award.

Cambridge, MA - The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy.

Computer scientist applies inspirations from biological multi-agent systems to computer and robotic systems - Harvard President Drew Faust has approved Radhika Nagpal for promotion to the role of full professor with tenure at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Climate scientist aims to understand the convective forces driving El Niño and the South Asian monsoons - Harvard President Drew Faust has approved Zhiming Kuang for promotion to the role of full professor with tenure.

Cambridge, MA - Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy - the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.