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Researchers at SEAS and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a resilient RoboBee powered by soft artificial muscles that can crash into walls, fall onto the floor...

Watch a presentation about the graduate admissions process for programs offered by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

This SEAS project monitors chemical signals emitted by plants known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which help plants interact with organisms around them. Every species of plant emits a diffe...

Saad Rajan and Vivek Hv have launched Naya, an onlined platform that connects customers with makers, including designers, architects, artisans and woodworkers, in an end-to-end system that enables ...

The polarization camera can see stress in a plastic object when squeezed.

Researchers at SEAS have developed a highly compact, portable camera that can image polarization in a single shot. The miniature camera — about the size of a thumb — could find a place in the
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Changes to the Robobee — including an additional pair of wings and improvements to the actuators and transmission ratio — made the vehicle more efficient and allowed the addition of solar cells and...

A profile of Anne Raheem, class of 2019, an undergraduate student concentrating in electrical engineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A profile of Sayo Eweje, class of 2019, an undergraduate student concentrating in bioengineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A profile of Noemi Valdez, class of 2019, an undergraduate student concentrating in applied mathematics at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A profile of Robert Anderson, class of 2019, an undergraduate student concentrating in mechanical engineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

SEAS researchers have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster and more precise than its predecessor. The robot is made using kirigami — a Japanese paper craft that rel...

A team of researchers at SEAS have characterized a fundamental origami fold, or tessellation, that could be used as a building block to create almost any three-dimensional shape, from nanostructure...

A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed fully soft, electrically driven artificial muscles that operate on par with na...

Research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with MIT and Princeton University, finds that if solar geoengineering is used to cut gl...

A taste of the vibrant culture of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Computer science doctoral student, James Larisch, talks about his research on computer security and virtualization with Professor James Mickens, and his experience at Harvard.

Environmenal Science and Engineering doctoral student, Ben Geyman, talks about his research on the biogeochemistry of global contaminants with professor Elsie Sunderland, and experience at Harvard.

Applied physics doctoral student, Nicholas Cuccia, talks about his research on the physics of failure with professor Shmuel Rubinstein at Harvard's SMRLab, and his experience at Harvard.

Material Science and Mechanical Engineering doctoral student, Nicholas Bartlett, talks about his research in soft robotics with the Microrobotics Laboratory and his experience at Harvard.

Data Science masters student, Dylan Randle, talks about his experience at Harvard.

Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering doctoral student, Eric Fell, talks about his research on flow batteries with the Material Science Group.

Computer science doctoral student, Hongyao Ma, talks about her research at the interface between economics and computer science with Harvard's EconCS group, and her experience at Harvard.

Master of Design Engineering (MDE) student, Mengxi Tan, talks about her experience at Harvard.

Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) masters student, Bhaven Patel, talks about his interest in personalized medicine and disease diagnostics and his experience at Harvard.

Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering doctoral student, George Varnavides, talks about his research on heat transfer across (hard-soft) interfaces with the Narang Lab, and his experience at ...

Computer Science doctorial student, Chara Podimata, talks about her research at the intersection of theoretical computer science, economics, and machine learning with the EconCS group, and her exp...

Applied physics doctoral student, Victoria Hwang, talks about her research on structural color with Harvard's Manoharan Lab, and her experience at Harvard.

Electrical engineering doctoral student, Aric Lu, talks about his research on bioprinting with the Lewis Lab, and experience at Harvard.

Data Science masters student, Michael Emanuel, talks about his experience at Harvard.

Master of Design Engineering student, Taylor Greenberg Goldy, talks about her experience at Harvard.

Applied physics docoral student, Aditya Ranganathan, talks about his research on the collective behavior of humans, and experience at Harvard.

Applied physics doctoral student, Soeren Brandt, talks about his research on membrane emulsification with the Aizenberg Lab, and his experience at Harvard.

Recently, students in Physics as a Foundation for Science & Engineering (AP 50) were hard-at-work on their second project, in which they designed their very own Rube Goldberg machines. Here, a smal...

Students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences work on their robots during a lab session of the course Computer-Aided Machine Design (ES 51). Video by Olivia Nie...

Students in Science and Cooking learned about the principles of elasticity during a pancake-making lab. Video by Olivia Nie, A.B. '20

Julie Holbrook, Director of Graduate Admissions at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, answers many of the most frequently asked questions and provides an overvi...

A team of Harvard University researchers spent months shaking and rattling swarms of thousands of honey bees to better understand how bees collectively collaborate to stabilize structures in the pr...

An explanatory video of Acoustophoretic Printing.
Credits: Daniele Foresti, Lori K. Sanders, Jennifer A. Lewis, Harvard University.

This research was funded by Society in Science through the Branc...

In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard’s Ambulatory Microrobot, known as HAMR, can walk on land, swim on the surfac...

This dynamic, multifunctional surface could be used to direct the movement and assembly of micro-scale particles, regulate the flow and mixing of millimeter-size droplets, or turn adhesive properti...

Masters of Design Engineering student Jeremy Burke discusses his two years as a graduate student at Harvard's first joint program offered by Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Appl...

Computer science concentrator Maria Zlatkova discusses her time as an undergraduate at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Electrical Engineering concentrator Cameron Akker discusses his time as an undergraduate at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Electrical Engineering concentrator Cameron Akker discusses his involvement with Flag Football during his time at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Undergraduate Applied Mathematics concentrator, Talullah Axinn, talks about her time at Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have shown how a multi-layered structu...

Listen as senior Aron Szanto, an applied math concentrator, plays a jazzy tune on a capacitive banana piano he developed for Engineering the Acoustical World (ES 25). (Video by Maddie Hickman)

Inspired by our bodies’ sensory capabilities, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineeri...

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied and Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed an efficient machine l...