During these difficult times, many institutions are seeking to raise financial support through traditional means such as benefits and events. However,  the smarties up at Harvard have a different strategy to help with their monetary woes. Recently, the Cambridge MA school announced that it will be coming out with it’s own clothing line The Harvard Yard,  which will be an assortment of crisp and collegiate menswear looks including preppy staples such as seersucker shorts, plaids, patterned jackets,  and “sporty knits”. Above is a sneak preview from the upcoming line to be manufactured by the Wearwolf Group, which is part of [...]

The Harvard University Press announced recently that it will publish approximately 1000 academic books digitally through Scribd, the world’s largest “social publishing company.”  Academic works are often published with ludicrously small printing runs because the main goal is becoming peer-reviewed, rather than read by the larger public.
While putting scholarly work online certainly won’t make it more readable, it may advance the attitude of the academic community to accept the merits of online sources.  Most online material is frowned on by the archaic peer-review process, but hopefully if a large (and reputable) publishing house like the Harvard University Press takes the [...]

A team of Harvard University chemists have developed a simple technology that takes an expensive medical device know as a microfluidic chip and puts it within reach of the third world.  Using paper and double-sided tape as opposed to rubbers or plastics that require multimillion dollar fabrication equipment, these chips can eventually be made widely available for mere pennies on the dollar.    
[They] operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid into dozens [...]

Harvard has recently launched a new one year academic program to serve the growing number of retired professionals who aren’t ready to lead lives filled with early bird specials and afternoon golf games, but instead want to involve themselves with creating social change.
The program, called the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, is a collaboration among five of the university’s professional schools — business, law, government, education and public health. It is seen as a next stage for universities, beyond undergraduate and then graduate and professional schools.
If successful, Harvard professors say, it can serve as a model for schools at other universities, [...]