Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the largest division of the University, and it comprises Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and the Division of Continuing Education, including the Extension and Summer Schools. FAS is home to nearly 50 different centers, institutes, and societies, many relevant to the cross-disciplinary nature of global health challenges, for example biologically inspired engineering, environmental studies, innovative computing, regional studies focused on different areas of the world, and centers related to history and the arts.
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This article from the Harvard Gazette discusses research from Harvard's Opportunity Insights, which finds that children who lived in neighborhoods with a mix of public and market-rate housing had better outcomes in adulthood compared to those who lived in public housing only neighborhoods.
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This article from the School of Engineering highlights KoboToolbox, a tool developed by faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. The article shares how engineering students helped develop a clicker, integrated with KoboToolbox, that could help making simple counting tasks cleaner and easier to share.
