Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Schmidt Sciences Awards Early-Career Fellowships to Michael Albergo, Melanie Weber

Two assistant professors in applied mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have received AI2050 Fellowships from Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit ...
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The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Key Takeaways A new study finds that sustainable aviation fuel made from municipal solid waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared with traditional jet fuel. Municipal solid waste ...
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Biomaterial Vaccines to Make Implanted Orthopedic Devices Safer

Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a small but significant risk that these devices get infected with bacterial ...
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Two SEAS alums named to Forbes 30 Under 30

Two alumni from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30. Ben Schafer, Ph.D. '24, has been recognized in the Energy ...
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Alumni profile: Oni Blackstock, A.B. '99, MD '05

Blackstock’s mother died from leukemia in the summer after Oni’s second year at SEAS. Earlier this year, Uché published Legacy, a book about her mother, in which she discussed how growing up near a ...
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EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills, urban areas

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...
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Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS and Boston University researchers used a soft, wearable robotic garment to eliminate gait-freezing episodes in a Parkinson’s disease patient, enabling longer, faster strides ...
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Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more ...
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A Wearable Robot That Learns

Key Takeaways Harvard researchers have created a soft, wearable robotic device that provides personalized movement assistance for individuals with upper-limb impairment, such as stroke and ALS ...
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A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery

“Our research shows that the solid-state battery could be fundamentally different from the commercial liquid electrolyte lithium-ion battery,” said Li. “By studying their fundamental thermodynamics, ...
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Using sound to test devices, control qubits

Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering ...
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A long-lasting neural probe

Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to further our understanding of neural circuits, to enable novel medical device-based ...