The classroom doors are open! Join us this Friday, 11 to 3, for a spectacular display of 200+ student projects, 3D printers, a laser cutter, robotics, and more! Details here.
Congratulations to Riju Agrawal ‘13 (center), who is receiving a $1000 scholarship from the Society of American Military Engineers! Agrawal, who studies engineering sciences at SEAS, completed a senior thesis on affordable water filtration technologies for developing nations. Read more.
Congratulations to Aaron Kuan, a SEAS grad student in applied physics, who is among eight innovators selected for the Harvard Horizons program at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences! Read more.
We’re very pleased to announce that Prof. Federico Capasso has been selected to receive the 2013 SPIE Gold Medal. The Gold Medal, awarded to a single recipient annually, is the highest honor bestowed by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Read more.
A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface. Significantly, the device can recognize specific kinds of polarized light and accordingly send the signal in one direction or another.
The findings, published in the April 19 issue of Science, offer a new way to precisely manipulate light at the subwavelength scale without damaging a signal that could carry data. This opens the door to a new generation of on-chip optical interconnects that can efficiently funnel information from optical to electronic devices.
(Images courtesy of Jiao Lin, Balthasar Mueller, and Samuel Twist.)
What use is a hand without nerves, that can’t tell what it’s holding? A hand that lifts a can of soda to your lips, but inadvertently tips or crushes it in the process?
Researchers at Harvard SEAS have developed a very inexpensive tactile sensor for robotic hands that is sensitive enough to turn a brute machine into a dextrous manipulator.
Robot hands gain a gentler touch.
Congratulations to Prof. David Mooney, who has just been recognized with the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, nominated by his own happy graduate students! Find out why they like him.
The scourge of the health care industry, bacteria like E. coli are adept at clinging to the materials used in medical implants like pacemakers, prosthetics, stents, and catheters, spreading slimy biofilm and causing dangerous infections. New research from Harvard University helps to explain how waterborne bacteria can colonize rough surfaces—even those that have been designed to resist water.
Our students don’t sit back. When they see a need in health care, in government, or in everyday life, they also see tremendous innovative solutions. But more importantly, they believe in their own ability to make change.
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