Faculty & Community

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

In Sermon, Garber Urges Harvard Community to ‘Defend and Protect’ Institutions

Harvard’s president uses traditional Memorial Church address to encourage divergent views.

by Jonathan Shaw

Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one

Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.

by Jonathan Shaw

Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty

Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.

Harvard Headlines: Derek Bok, Ellen Langer, Lawrence Lessig

A review of Bok's new book, The Politics of Happiness; a profile of positive-psychology pioneer Langer; Lessig's suggestions for reforming Congress

Background and links for the participants in our China panel discussion

Background on the faculty members and alumni who discuss contemporary China's rising power—and persistent problems—in the magazine's probing roundtable

Harvard perspectives on world economic crises

A panel of social scientists dissects past mistakes, and sees daunting fiscal and regulatory challenges ahead for the United States and Europe.

Oscar nominees include film from book by Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon

Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.

Harvard Rallies Help for Haiti with Benefit Concert; Plans Memorial Service

Evidence of Harvard maps in use; updates on the situation on the ground; a benefit concert featuring student performers and a memorial service.

Thoreau's Walden Pond dataset shows that climate change helps invasive species

This is what a new study by a team including Harvard scientists, using a Walden Woods dataset begun by Henry David Thoreau, suggests.

Amy Wagers Discovers a Regenerative Pathway in Blood

Aged blood stem cells in mice act young again when exposed to the circulation of a young mouse.

Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Hosts Haiti Map Portal

The Center for Geographic Analysis has created an online portal and sent up-to-date high-resolution wall maps with a delegation traveling to the earthquake-stricken country.