SEAS hopes to maintain instruction quality in undergraduate classes by hiring a cadre of non-ladder faculty while it continues to search for tenure-track professors.

The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced last week the creation of a new research institute focused on computational science to enhance graduate study in the field.

The faculty members affiliated with Harvard Computer Science are poised to face a wave of retirement over the next few years.

Flying insect-like robots that would be able to navigate situations too dangers for humans are one step closer to becoming a reality.

The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created five new administrative positions—termed “area deans”—to oversee subfields within engineering and applied physics.

In her recent appointment to a national commission on the BP oil spill, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray will draw upon decades of experience in managing engineers and scientists—an asset that colleagues say will prove fundamental to her government charge.

President Barack Obama has appointed School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray to a national commission tasked with providing recommendations to prevent future spills that result from offshore drilling.

The bursting of bubbles is caused by the dissipation of a larger bubble into smaller ones—a finding with larger implications for current understanding of aerosols, according to a recent study at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Gu-Yeon Wei, an electrical engineering professor who focuses on designing efficient electronic circuits, has been granted tenure in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Less than a week after Computer Science 50 Lecturer David J. Malan ’99 announced that the class would switch to a satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system, administrators and teaching fellows have expressed reservations about Malan’s plan.