Announcements

RF Taute Lab receives 2019 Rowland Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Undergraduate Program Award

January 15, 2019

The Rowland Foundation has awarded the Rowland Institute at Harvard $100,000 for one year to continue the program that provides mentoring and supervisory experience for a postdoctoral fellow and hands-on research experience for an undergraduate research student working with postdoctoral fellow.

The project will focus on characterizing and comparing motility behavior in liquids and model complex environments in two well-known pathogens - Vbrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa whose swimming motility has barely been studied despite long-recognized...

Catalyzing CO2

November 8, 2018

Imagine a day when - rather than being spewed into the atmosphere - the gases coming from power plants are instead captured and fed into catalytic reactors that chemically transform greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into industrial fuels or chemicals that emit only oxygen. It's a future that Rowland Fellow Haotian Wang says may be closer than many realize.

Read the full Harvard Gazette article...

Mathis Lab publishes a new AI tool to track animals

September 17, 2018

Quantifying behavior is crucial for many applications in neuroscience. Videography provides easy methods for the observation and recording of animal behavior in diverse settings, yet extracting particular aspects of a behavior for further analysis can be highly time consuming. In motor control studies, humans or other animals are often marked with reflective markers to assist with computer-based tracking, but markers are...

Congreve Lab Develops New Efficient Blue LEDs

September 11, 2018

Perovskite materials have the potential to be great LEDs, as very efficient red and green devices have been developed. Yet in order to be used in applications such as TVs and phones, blue LEDs are also required, and these have lagged far behind. Researchers in the Congreve Lab have figured out a surprising way to fix these materials: by adding a dopant, their brightness and efficiency counter-intuitively increase, leading to the highest efficiency blue...

RF Alumnus Alvaro Sanchez: Simplicity in Microbial Community paper appears in Science

August 24, 2018

RF alumnus Alvaro Sanchez is the lead author on a paper entitled “Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly” that appears in the August 3, 2018 issue of the journal Science.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6401/469

RF Mackenzie Mathis awarded MBB Faculty Award

August 20, 2018

The Adaptive Motor Control Lab was awarded a 2018 Mind Brain Behavior Faculty Award (for 50,000 USD). In collaboration with Prof. Maurice Smith at SEAS, Dr. Mackenzie Mathis and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Gary Kane... Read more about RF Mackenzie Mathis awarded MBB Faculty Award

RF alumnus Yuki Sato: Quantum Simulator paper appears in Science

August 10, 2018

RF alumnus Yuki Sato (link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuki-sato-b4637017/ ) is an author on a paper titled “Phase transitions in a programmable quantum spin glass simulator” that appears in the July 13, 2018 issue of the journal Science.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/162

Rowland Fellows at the Museum of Science

July 19, 2018

Members of the Rowland Institute at Harvard joined with the Museum of Science in Boston, MA to introduce the nano-world and their research to visitors to the museum. Over the day, the Rowland group received training in outreach and interaction with the public, with a focus on describing their research in a way that can be understood and appreciated by the general public. They were then set loose in the museum to lead demos featuring nano-scale technologies, including thin films, photonic structures, and hydrophobicity... Read more about Rowland Fellows at the Museum of Science

Rowland Fellows Program now accepting applications for 2019

July 13, 2018

The application period for the 2019 Rowland Fellowship Program in Energy Science and Engineering is now open. We seek the best young experimentalists in energy science and engineering in the broadest sense. The Rowland Fellowship provides an opportunity to establish an independent program within the rich intellectual environment at Harvard.

Interested applicants should follow the link listed below to read more on the position, desired qualifications, and complete the online application process. Deadline for applications is Friday, August 17, 2018.

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Rowland Institute welcomes the 2018 Summer Students

June 13, 2018

The Rowland Institute at Harvard welcomes the 2018 group of summer students to the Institute. The Rowland Summer Students have the opportunity to further their scientific experience by working along side the current Rowland Fellows, their postdocs, and the Scientific Staff. The Rowland Institute is excited to offer an environment where students in the sciences can take part in the creative... Read more about Rowland Institute welcomes the 2018 Summer Students