Update: The Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS) has launched Earth Month. Check out the full list of activities here. And read more about the program in the Harvard Gazette.
Biochemistry is messy: you have to get your hands dirty to make progress. But just how lasting is the messiness? And who pays the bill for cleanup? [...]
As a continuation of our popular Pathfinder Series, the DMS Bulletin caught up with Connie Chow, Ph.D., an alumna of the DMS Virology Program and the executive director for Science Club for Girls, a non-profit organization providing science enrichment programs to grade school girls. Chow’s involvement…
With the start of a new academic year, events organized by the seven Division of Medical Sciences (DMS) Paths programs are once again in full swing. One event particularly close to the hearts of several DMS Bulletin editors here, who also happened to lead the Science Writing and Publishing Path (full disclosure), is the so-called [...]
The Bulletin is pleased to present this piece as the latest edition in our Pathfinders Series, inspired by the DMS Paths program.
Porter Anderson is a microbiologist whose work towards a widely-administered Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine earned him the Lasker and Pasteur Awards in 1996. Anderson earned a PhD in Bacteriology from Harvard Medical School [...]
In the spirit of yearly renewal, commensurate with the beginning of another academic year, check out the first edition of “When I was your age,” a Bulletin series that seeks to give new life to old articles. Check out this piece from PhD candidate Roy Auty (now Dr. Auty). It ran in 1999!
My name is [...]
The Bulletin gets an update from Path student leaders on their progress and their intentions. Read on for news on upcoming opportunities and activities from each of the seven interest groups.
As a longtime fan of the American Chemical Society (ACS) publication, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), I wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes. For the uninitiated, the pages (still in print as well as online) are regularly filled with breaking stories from the intersection of chemistry and its many related disciplines, as [...]
Organ transplantation is an evolving practice that has already served to save innumerable lives and recipients’ quality of life for the better. In the latest issue of the Flash, graduate student Wen Allen Tseng describes the immunological challenges underlying transplantation and how doctors and scientists work to get around them.
What does it take to start (and survive in) a science writing career? On Thursday, March 8, 2012, Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) organized a panel of experts at Dudley House in Cambridge to find out. The event was co-sponsored by GSAS, HILS, and the GSC. The panel featured Cornelia Dean, science [...]
For the latest installment of our Pathfinders Series, the DMS Bulletin caught up with Harvard alumna Dr. Valerie Weiss, writer and director of Losing Control, at Dudley House on April 5, 2012 in advance of her latest Cambridge opening….