Education

CCB hosted the G35 cohort - PhD alums who entered Harvard CCB in 1991 - on October 3, 2026. This particular cohort has a reunion every 5 years and tries to stay in touch with CCB leadership and current graduate students. During their visit, they got to...

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A new study from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...

Lizbeth Ibarra grew up next to an oil refinery, and every day she saw its impact on her community of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her family and friends suffered from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. School days were sometimes cancelled...

If anyone would want to do cardiac research at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), it’s Shivani Srikanth. As a child, Srikanth had a heart condition that required a pacemaker to be surgically implanted, and the procedure was done at BCH. Now a fourth-year...

On Monday, Nobel laureate and former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivered a wide-ranging and urgent lecture, warning that the world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming, calling for a new era of scientific innovation and policy action to...

Patryk Kozlowski was finishing his fall exams as a junior at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) when he learned he had leukemia. A young athlete and a burgeoning scientist, Kozlowski was stunned. Only weeks later, though, he faced even...

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology celebrated the successful completion of the third iteration of its Pathways program, an immersive and transformative initiative designed to provide high school students with hands-on laboratory experience...

By Yahya Chaudhry As a junior at Brighton High School in 2022, Roshaun Knight was unsure about his plans after graduation. An ambitious student, Knight had always wanted to go to college but had been putting off the application process, until he...

We are proud to present our fourth edition of CCB Magazine! Click here to access the online edition. Send us your comments and questions to the editor at yahya_chaudhry@fas.harvard.edu. In this fourth issue, "Rediscovery," we focus on acknowledging and...

Becoming a full-fledged organism out of a handful of cells, complete with functioning tissues and organs, is a messy yet highly synchronized process that requires cells to organize themselves in a precise manner and begin working together. This process is...