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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as the first and oldest corporation in the Americas. Initially called 'New College' or 'the college at New Towne, the institution was named Harvard College on 13 March 1639, after a young clergyman named John Harvard, bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and half his personal wealth, GBP1,500 or seven hundred fifty pounds sterling. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a 'university' occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

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News articles associated with 'Harvard University' [chronologically, reverse order]

Materials scientists at Harvard demonstrate the first macro-scale thin-film solid-oxide fuel cell

— 4 Apr 2011 18:39 | Technology

Materials scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and SiEnergy Systems LLC have demonstrated the first macro-scale thin-film solid-oxide fuel cell…

Engineers create vibrant colours in vertical silicon nanowires

— 4 Apr 2011 18:36 | Technology

Engineers may soon be singing, 'I'm going to wash that grey right out of my nanowires,' thanks to a colourful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies.…

Scientists find gene responsible for colour patterns in mice

— 26 Feb 2011 17:27 | Biology

Scientists at Harvard University are moving closer to answering some age-old questions…

Applied physicists discover that migrating cells flow like glass

— 22 Feb 2011 23:24 | Physics

By studying cellular movements at the level of both the individual cell and the collective group, applied physicists have discovered that migrating tissues flow very much like colloidal…

Clay-armoured bubbles may have formed first protocells

— 7 Feb 2011 15:07 | Chemistry

A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic…

Infants ascribe social dominance to larger individuals

— 28 Jan 2011 16:21 | Biology

Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants less than one year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when two individuals'…

Simple, ingenious way to create lab-on-a-chip devices could become a model for teaching and research

— 21 Jan 2011 19:38 | Technology

With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip…

Sharply focused on neurones, light controls a worm's behaviour

— 19 Jan 2011 16:47 | Biology

Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behaviour of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of light at individual neurones…

A pesky bacterial slime reveals its survival secrets

— 8 Jan 2011 13:03 | Health

By rethinking what happens on the surface of things, engineers at Harvard University have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a…

Psychologists find skill in recognising faces peaks after age 30

— 4 Jan 2011 20:59 | Health

Scientists have made the surprising discovery that our ability to recognise and remember faces peaks at age 30 to 34, about a decade later than most of our other mental abilities…

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