When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022 in the South Pacific, it produced a shock wave felt around the world and triggered tsunamis in Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Peru and the United States. It also changed the chemistry and dynamics of the stratosphere in the year following the eruption, leading to unprecedented losses in the ozone layer of up to 7% over large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National...
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced 16 outstanding projects in its latest class of ASPIRE awards, granting more than $5 million for research that aims to answer key feasibility and proof-of-concept questions in an accelerated time frame, and scaling for impact based upon initial success. The high-risk nature of these projects, often based on new ideas that have generated limited preliminary data, tends to place them outside the scope of other funding opportunities.
On Wednesday, August 30, CCB hosted the inaugural Harvard Chemistry Future Leaders Symposium (CFLS).
The mission of this symposium was to raise awareness of research opportunities at Harvard/CCB among senior graduate students and highlight a new postdoctoral fellowship, the CCB Chemistry Future Leaders Fellowship. The event showcased the achievements of early career scholars in chemistry and adjacent fields who have made outstanding scientific contributions and have shown exemplary stewardship in research and education with a focus on equity, diversity,...
Chem 145 students, students Jack Boettcher and Sajeev Kohli, contributed poster presentations at the 2023 American Chemical Society Undergraduate Symposium between 13-17 August 2023
The two poster abstracts were based on a paper published last year by Jack C. Boettcher, Christie Hung, Sajeev Kohli, Daniel S. Engebretson, Daniel R. Morphet, Brandon M. Campbell, Dilek K. Dogutan, and Daniel G. Nocera:Probing the Halide Effect in the δ-...
The Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local high school students to experience the world of cutting-edge research. The department celebrated the success of the program with a breakfast event on August 17 that highlighted and honored commitment of all its participants.
For six weeks, a cohort of talented and motivated Brighton-llston High...
Like the human gut, the female genital tract is its own complex microbial ecosystem, where billions of beneficial bacteria make their home. The way Harvard chemist Emily Balskus sees it, the vaginal microbiome is an underappreciated, understudied part of the body where critically important chemistry takes place.
The Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and a Howard...
Antiferromagnet unveils novel Nonlinear Hall Effect enabling wireless energy
In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, a team of Harvard scientists have harnessed the unique properties of antiferromagnetic materials and the quantum metric to unveil a novel nonlinear Hall effect. This breakthrough not only expands our understanding of fundamental physics but also paves the way for exciting advancements in electronics and quantum computing.
On June 1st, CCB kicked off the second annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program with “Match Day” at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The afternoon highlighted the work of the six Brighton-Allston High School students enrolled in the program and provided an opportunity for CCB program staff, graduate and postdoc mentors, Ed portal staff and Brighton-Allston high school science teachers to meet and celebrate the work of this program. The high school students were handed a letter which contained their highly anticipated summer lab placement assignments. Once the matches were...
For years, scientists have been attempting to engineer tiny, artificial cilia for miniature robotic systems that can perform complex motions, including bending, twisting, and reversing. Building these smaller-than-a-human-hair microstructures typically requires multi-step fabrication processes and varying stimuli to create the complex...
Earth is getting hotter. Much hotter. A 2022 Washington Post analysis of data from the nonprofit First Street Foundation projected that 63 percent of the US population will experience an average of at least three consecutive days of 100-degree heat every year—up from 46 percent today. In parts of the South and...
