The Department was busy this past year concentrating on the development of several educational initiatives. We launched a new Masters program in Health Data Science, with the first cohort scheduled … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Brent Coull”
As part of its mandate to monitor quality teaching at the School, the Committee on Educational Policy recently reviewed student course evaluations and found that the following courses in the … Continue reading “Spring 1 & 2 Course Evaluations”
Curtis Huttenhower and his team have received a great deal of press over the past week upon publishing their new study on the Boston subway system, “Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ … Continue reading “The Boston Subway Microbiome”
Curtis Huttenhower interviews remotely with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as part of a stream of press leading up to the publication of his lab’s new paper profiling microbial communities on … Continue reading “The Boston Subway Microbiome”
Himel Mallick, PhD is a recipient of the 2016 AMS-Simons travel grant by the American Mathematical Society and the Simons Foundation. Sixty awards were given in 2016 to early career … Continue reading “2016 AMS-Simons Travel Grant”
Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics (CBQG) master’s student Lana Awad was recently featured in the Harvard Gazette where she discusses her path from Syria to America, her desire to learn more about … Continue reading “CBQG Student Story: Lana Awad”
Associate Professor Curtis Huttenhower recently received two new research grants. A two-year NIH R21 entitled “Staphylococcus Aureus Carriage and the Nasal Microbiome” will characterize the associations between S. Aureas and the predominant members … Continue reading “New Microbiome Initiative Data Center”
