The struggle to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
GSD Associate Professor Holly Samuelson explains how climate change is catalyzing dramatic new city and state regulations as architects, designers, and developers are struggling to stay current.
May 10, 2023 • ~11 min
N.Y. plan to involuntarily treat mentally ill homeless? Not entirely outrageous
Katherine Koh, a street psychiatrist at Mass. General Hospital, explains the complicating factors behind New York City’s proposal to involuntarily treat mentally ill homeless people.
Dec. 8, 2022 • ~12 min
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
May 13, 2021 • ~16 min
Experts consider the ethical implications of new technology
Faculty from the Computer Science and Philosophy departments join forces in a successful new undergraduate initiative, Embedded EthiCS, to change the way computer scientists think about the ethical implications of new technology.
Oct. 16, 2020 • ~15 min
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