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Smell-o-phone creator expands scent ambitions to books, clothes, wearables
David Edwards made a lot of money selling an inhalable-medicine startup to global pharmaceutical company Alkermes. Since then, the Harvard professor has turned his attention to fantastical experiments...
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Rough Draft Ventures offers student startups backing from their peers
On a Monday evening in mid-March, Toni Oloko walked into the Harvard Square offices of General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm that has put up millions to back companies like Kayak, Snapchat,...
View Article‘Let’s make something cool’: Zuckerberg introduces ‘Thefacebook’ on CNBC
On April 28, 2004, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg casually told CNBC that he hoped “to make something cool” by creating Thefacebook — yes, it was an official-sounding website with the article...
View ArticleHarvard i-Lab announces five Deans’ Challenge winners
Students hoping to improve fertility treatments and keep food from spoiling while it’s being shipped were among the winners of the Harvard Innovation Lab’s annual Deans’ Challenge competition. The...
View ArticleHarvard appoints UC Santa Barbara prof as dean of engineering school
Harvard University has appointed Francis Doyle, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, as the dean of its School of Engineering and Applied Science. Doyle...
View ArticleStudents from MIT and Harvard are biking cross country to get kids excited...
If you live anywhere between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, look out your window this summer and try to spot them: a group of MIT and Harvard college students biking west, spreading a love of...
View ArticleTwitter buys Harvard machine-learning spinout Whetlab
Twitter is adding some artificial intelligence heft to its Boston-area office. The social-media company said Wednesday that it had acquired Whetlab, a Cambridge-based data analysis software startup...
View ArticleCambridge company born in Internet’s ‘big bang’ has lasting impact
The summer of 1995 was a “big bang” moment for the Internet. Amazon.com switched on its servers two decades ago this month, and the founders of AuctionWeb — later renamed eBay — were busily preparing...
View Article10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg said to Harvard, ‘I’m not coming back’
Ten years ago Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg strolled back onto the Harvard campus, having taken the semester off to devote full time to his startup, thefacebook.com. Launched a year and a half earlier, the...
View ArticleHarvard and MIT stake their claims for world economic dominance
It costs a pretty penny to attend Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but graduates usually get their money’s worth – and so does the world economy. New studies released...
View ArticleHarvard appoints UC Santa Barbara prof as dean of engineering school
Doyle will be taking over the role from Harry Lewis, dean and computer science professor, who was filling the role after Dean Cherry Murray, a physicist who served as dean of the school for five years,...
View ArticleStudents from MIT and Harvard are biking cross country to get kids excited...
A team of students from Harvard and MIT will be biking cross country this summer and hosting workshops in a variety of STEM fields, providing hands-on science experience to kids that might not...
View Article10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg said to Harvard, ‘I’m not coming back’
Ten years ago Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg strolled back onto the Harvard campus, having taken the semester off to devote full time to his startup, thefacebook.com. Launched a year and a half earlier, the...
View ArticleHarvard and MIT stake their claims for world economic dominance
It costs a pretty penny to attend Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but graduates usually get their money’s worth – and so does the world economy. New studies released...
View ArticleHow Cambridge became the life sciences capital
If you’ve assumed that biotech companies cluster in Cambridge to be close to Harvard and MIT, that’s only part of the story — other cities were far less welcomin. When a Harvard spin-out, Genetics...
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