# News & Updates ## News from the Harvard Gazette [### Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel ](/news/bionic-leaf-turns-sunlight-liquid-fuel) June 02, 2016 Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy... ![v2-0-bionic-leaf-605.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/ofr/files/v2-0-bionic-leaf-605.jpg?itok=33SaSZwq) [### Alzheimer’s insights in single cells ](/news/alzheimer%E2%80%99s-insights-single-cells) February 03, 2016 Building on research reported last year, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have succeeded in identifying the neurons that secrete the substance responsible for the plaques that build up in the brains of... ![pearse-young_image_605.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/ofr/files/pearse-young_image_605.jpg?itok=3IBPJDlk) [### 4D-printed structure changes shape when placed in water ](/news/4d-printed-structure-changes-shape-when-placed-water) January 25, 2016 A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth... ![4d-printing-605x403.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/ofr/files/4d-printing-605x403.jpg?itok=PV6-d_aF) ## Washington Updates [### President Trump Releases FY27 Budget Request ](/news/2026/04/president-trump-releases-fy27-budget-request) April 06, 2026 On Friday, President Trump released his fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request, once again seeking to restructure the federal bureaucracy and make steep cuts to education and research—proposals that were largely rejected or at least mitigated by Congress in... description [### Concerns about DHS Risk Triggering Partial Government Shutdown ](/news/2026/01/concerns-about-dhs-risk-triggering-partial-government-shutdown) January 29, 2026 While the situation around FY26 final spending measures remains very fluid, there are negotiations ongoing between Congressional and Administration leaders amid the fallout from recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis. However, time is very short before the... ![Harvard Shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Screenshot%202025-03-13%20161230.jpg?h=5f54f907&itok=oB12fyLU) [### Congress Moves to Finalize FY26 Appropriations ](/news/2026/01/congress-moves-finalize-fy26-appropriations) January 23, 2026 On Thursday, the House approved (341-88; 220-207) the remaining fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills, providing full-year funding for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security and rejecting the deep... ![Harvard Shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Screenshot%202025-03-13%20161230.jpg?h=5f54f907&itok=oB12fyLU) [### Congress Contends with FY26 Deadlines ](/news/2025/09/congress-contends-fy26-deadlines) September 09, 2025 With none of the twelve annual spending bills signed into law, Congress has returned from its August recess and has begun negotiations on a short-term stopgap funding bill to fund the government beyond Fiscal Year 25, which expires on September 30, and to... ![Harvard Shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Screenshot%202025-03-13%20161230.jpg?h=5f54f907&itok=oB12fyLU) [### Congress Returns from August Break Facing FY25 Deadline ](/news/2024/09/congress-returns-august-break-facing-fy25-deadline) September 03, 2024 When Congress returns next week from its August recess, three weeks will remain until current government funding expires at the start of the new fiscal year and until Congress’ scheduled adjournment for fall campaigning ahead of November’s consequential... ![Harvard Shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Screenshot%202025-03-13%20161230.jpg?h=5f54f907&itok=oB12fyLU) [### Congress Agrees to Another Funding Patch as Deadline Looms ](/news/congress-agrees-another-funding-patch-deadline-looms) February 28, 2024 Today, Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a fourth continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government beyond March 1, the first of two funding deadlines, with the plan to consider a full year spending package for six of the twelve... ![Harvard Shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum12061/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Screenshot%202025-03-13%20161230.jpg?h=5f54f907&itok=oB12fyLU) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/news-source/washington-update)