Author name: Ellen Warren

Milk is something of a head-scratcher for Christina Warinner. It is rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals and has served as an important food source since prehistoric times. For much of human history, milk has been consumed in various parts of the globe and has helped shape civilization, said Warriner, an anthropologist specializing in biomolecular […]

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Roger Ware Brockett was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. With the passing of Roger Brockett, An Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus, engineering lost

Playwright Heidi Schreck achieved a rare level of success with “What the Constitution Means to Me.” Still, she was wracked with self-doubt when director Lila Neugebauer approached her about reviving Anton Chekhov’s enduring masterpiece “Uncle Vanya.” “I honestly felt very intimidated, like, ‘Why on earth should there be another translation when there are so many

The 16th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund awarded grants totaling $200,000 to 26 Allston-Brighton nonprofits at a special gathering in April. Held at the Harvard Ed Portal, the event brought together interim President Alan Garber, Boston’s Chief of Planning Arthur Jemison, City Councilor Liz Breadon, and State Rep. Kevin Honan among others. Since its inception,

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something stupendous.    Led by Jeff Lichtman, the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor

While moderating a talk on artificial intelligence last week, Latanya Sweeney posed a thought experiment. Picture three to five years from now. AI companies are continuing to scrape the internet for data to feed their large language models. But unlike today’s internet, which is largely human-generated content, most of that future internet’s content has been

A collection of stories covering Harvard University’s 373rd Commencement. Every two weeks or so, somebody would stop Kazuma Mitchell ’24 and ask for a photo. “They were mostly Chinese tourists visiting Harvard for the day,” he said.  While Mitchell appears to most on campus as an ordinary college student, these passersby recognized him from his

On a Tuesday evening in March, a group of students lay on their backs or stomachs on mats in a Harvard Dance Center studio, as teaching artist Grisha Coleman guided them through simple poses in the Feldenkrais Method — turning the head and resting it on the hand or raising one knee slightly — with

Maya Counter ’24 was only an infant when her neighborhood school in Cambridge was renamed from the Agassiz School to the Baldwin School. This moment would later take on untold significance for her in high school and later at Harvard where she graduates this month. In 2002, the Cambridge School Committee voted unanimously to shed