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Chase van Amburg ’24 is Collecting Microclimate Data

Chase van Amburg ’24 is Collecting Microclimate Data

Chase Van Amburg ‘24, an Integrative Biology concentrator who is also earning a concurrent Master’s degree in Applied Math, specializes in data science with a focus on climate change. This summer he received a grant from the Mittal Institute to begin work on “Mapping Heat in Microenvironments,” and he gave us a glimpse into the essence of his project.

Mittal Institute Faculty Research Grants

Mittal Institute Faculty Research Grants 2024-25 Announcement Date: October 2, 2023 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023 Program Details The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute supports faculty research projects with grants. Faculty members at Harvard are...

Artistic Expression, from South Asia to Cambridge: Welcoming Our New Visiting Artist Fellows

Artistic Expression, from South Asia to Cambridge: Welcoming Our New Visiting Artist Fellows

The Mittal Institute welcomed two new Visiting Artist Fellows, Cop Shiva and Garima Gupta, to campus for the start of their eight-week research fellowship at Harvard. The program allows mid-career visual artists from around South Asia to spend eight weeks on the Harvard campus. The VAF differs from a typical artist residency program in that it is research-centered, providing artists with the vast resources of Harvard’s intellectual community to enhance their artistic practice.

Cop and Garima share more about their artistic motivations below. And save the date to join them at the Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition on Tuesday, October 10, where they will share more of their work with our community.

Sri Lanka Discussion With President Wickremesinghe Takes Place at Crucial Moment

Sri Lanka Discussion With President Wickremesinghe Takes Place at Crucial Moment

On Friday, March 24, President Ranil Wickremesinghe joined the Harvard community live from Sri Lanka for a discussion moderated by professors Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, and Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School. The event, co-sponsored by the Center for International Development at Harvard and the Mittal Institute, covered a wide range of topics, from the recently announced IMF deal to social, economic, and political reforms to human rights issues and the way forward for the country.

Prof. Martha Selby on the Beauty and Value of Indian Poetry

Prof. Martha Selby on the Beauty and Value of Indian Poetry

This past fall, Harvard University welcomed Prof. Martha Selby as the Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies. She joined us from the University of Texas at Austin, where she taught since 1999. A scholar of South Asian literature, she shared more about her work and previewed her upcoming April 6 talk on “Sangam Tamil Lecture – Loss in Love and War: On Grief and Longing in Old Tamil Poetry.”

Shikha Kukreti, Lancet Citizens’ Commission Researcher, Explores COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Workers

Shikha Kukreti, Lancet Citizens’ Commission Researcher, Explores COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Workers

As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Shikha Kukreti, MPH, BDS, is focused on exploring the attitude of healthcare workers to vaccines, and their psychological wellbeing during the pandemic. A researcher with the Lancet Citizens Commission and a Ph.D. candidate at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, Shikha is spending the spring at the Mittal Institute. We spoke with her about her project.

Previewing LMSAI’s Inaugural Climate Change Workshop in New Delhi

The Mittal Institute has embarked on a major climate change initiative focused on South Asia, hosted at our Harvard Global Research Support Center India, an affiliate of Harvard University. This focus comes as Harvard awarded the Mittal Institute two multi-year grants to catalyze climate change research in South Asia. To build on the initiative, the Mittal Institute will host an inaugural climate change workshop on March 30-31 in New Delhi. The sessions will convene an interdisciplinary group of experts, policymakers and academics to set collective research and strategic priorities. LMSAI Director Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, spoke with us about LMSAI’s climate focus, and previewed the upcoming workshop.

The Mittal Institute Awards Record Funding to Seven New Faculty Grant Projects

The Mittal Institute Awards Record Funding to Seven New Faculty Grant Projects

The Mittal Institute annually supports faculty research projects that unite scholars from different fields and regions whose research relates to South Asia. Interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as projects that catalyze connectivity between scholars at Harvard and those in South Asia, are a funding priority. We are pleased to announce this year’s grant recipients—earning the highest individual funding amounts in Mittal Institute history—and their research initiatives.