Immunotherapy utilizes a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer. Specific immune cells, called t-cells, target cancer cells based on an interaction between the t-cell receptor and mutant p...
While working for his family’s dental supply business, Benjamin Cohen would often travel with company reps on sales calls. He was impressed watching reps build strong customer relationships, bu...
Inspired by the suicide of a 12-year-old who had been cyberbullied, @trishaprabhu created @rethinkwords, an AI-driven app that gives teens a chance to reconsider sending offensive messages. The i...
On the campaign trail, candidates often engage in a war of words. But Numinar co-founder Will Long, A.B. ‘19, believes numbers could make all the difference. Startup Numinar seeks to bring cutt...
The millions of patients who suffer from chronic venous insufficiency receive little relief from treatment. For these patients, malfunctioning vein valves can cause blood to pool at the bottom of...
The student startup @flyloro uses technology to help people with limited mobility gain more independence and connect with the world around then. The startup produces a smart, personalized device,...
Cheers to all our new graduates! Sarah Griesse-Nascimento, who received a Ph.D. in applied physics, will begin working at Intel on the quality and reliability engineering team. She’s excited to...
Congratulations Class of 2019! #Harvard #Harvard19 #GSAS19 @harvardgsas (at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByF68qunova/?igshid=zxy...
Electrical engineering concentrator Anne Raheem, S.B. ‘19, wants to use technology to digitally empower others. During her time at Harvard, she’s worked on a research project to create batter...
Rats on campus, disruptive noise pollution, and costly deep-sea research seem to have nothing in common—except that they could all be solved using an engineering design approach. Students in th...
When Sayo Eweje arrived an campus as a freshman, he was already set on studying biomedical engineering so he could create products and platforms that could have a significant impact on people’s...
Special series: the path untrodden part three⠀ ⠀ Follow along as Lyra Wanzer, S.B. ‘19, concentrating in mechanical engineering, builds an electroadhesive treaded robot for her senior cap...
During the eighth annual Design and Project Fair at #HarvardSEAS, student engineers shared the culmination of a year’s worth of creativity, collaboration, and commitment. Students, spectators, ...
Humans of SEAS⠀ “Not a lot of people know that three-quarters of infant deaths occur in the first week of life. So, I am currently working with a group on a project—in Conor Walsh’s Biod...
Researchers have developed a way to fabricate nanometer-sized drug delivery vehicles that can simultaneously deliver multiple drugs more efficiently that current methods. These drug delivery vehi...
Senior Robert Anderson applies his curiosity and problem solving skills to every challenge he immerses himself in, from mechanical engineering, to sailing, to printmaking, to swordsmithing. The L...
A computer and a human brain are, in many ways, more alike than they are different. A computer’s central processing unit contains billions of integrated transistors; the brain is comprised of b...
Finale Doshi-Velez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at #HarvardSEAS, was awarded the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award by the Graduate Student Council. Each year at the Eve...
Alumnus Chih-Han Yu, PhD ‘10, is founder and CEO of Appier, a firm that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses solve problems. One tool the company offers uses machine learning to help...
At the Design and Project Fair on May 8, nine seniors received honorable mention awards, in recognition of their outstanding work on their projects for the capstone engineering course Engineering...