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For faculty pursuing innovative and high-impact research On May 11, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the 2020 winners of the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, an internal program for...

Kang-Kuen Ni and Daniel Nocera will lead cross-institution teams to develop novel technologies like quantum computers and next-generation diving suits The Department of Defense recently announced the winners of their 2020 Multidisciplinary University...

From gut microbes to ultracold atoms, here are the stories that got the most attention in 2019 With the year's end in sight, we're taking one more look back. Below is the top ten list of the department's most read stories from 2019. But wait! Now's your...

With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy The coldest chemical reaction in the known universe took place in what appears to be a chaotic mess of lasers. The...

In a first, optical tweezers give Harvard scientists the control to capture ultracold molecules By Peter Reuell For most people, tweezers are a thing you’d find in a medicine cabinet or beauty salon, useful for getting rid of ingrown hairs or sculpting...

The ultra-cold molecule pioneer is crowned the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Kang-Kuen Ni's contolled fusion of two individual atoms—sodium and cesium—into a single molecule won her the cover of the May...

The Prize serves to recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics In her brief time as an Assistant Professor in our Department, Kang-Kuen Ni has earned well-deserved, wide-spread recognition for her work on...

Accolades, innovations, and world-firsts Often, small successes—even major accomplishments—stay hidden in the Lab. So, when we root out these diamond-like innovations, we try to spread the news to you, our audience. Based on skyrocketing pageviews, you...

As 2018 comes to an end, we tally the major awards and grants our junior faculty earned throughout the year We always showcase when a CCB faculty member wins an internationally significant, singular award or grant (a Nobel Prize, for a grand example). But...

The grant honors junior scholars with an outstanding independent body of scholarship, who are deeply committed to education The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced their 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2018. The thirteen young...