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Ismail El Baggari (clockwise from upper left), Shabnam Raayai, Sascha Feldman, Bryan Hunter, Sasha Rayshubskiy, and Christian Reece. Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

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By Juan Siliezar Harvard Staff Writer

Legendary scientist-entrepreneur Edwin H. Land created more than 40 years ago a refuge where scientists could sidestep bureaucracy and follow their research wherever it led them — often toward experiments considered impossible to do. That vision continues at Land’s Rowland Institute, which came to Harvard in 2002. At the heart of the institute lies the Rowland Fellows Program, which started when the Institute came to the University and since then has funded more than 35 young scientists from around the world, giving them the support to do cutting-edge research. The fellows will relocate their labs to the Cambridge science campus at Harvard beginning in the summer of 2024. Here are some of the innovative ideas the current Rowland Fellows are working on as the program marks its 20th year.

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Retailer is good at finding efficiencies, improving customer experience, but there’s much more to it than that, business professor says

Young local students in Harvard program investigate how skeletons work, cook Ukrainian flatbread, create their own play

Argues it will also help environment, fairness in health care, strengthen tax system

Maxwell Luo (clockwise from left), Raymond Wang, Michelle Luo, and Alan Wang examine skeleton samples in the classroom while attending the “Ins and Outs of Skeletons” class at Harvard Museum of Natural History. The program was part of Harvard Summer Explorations.

Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer