Faculty & Community

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

Alan Garber speaking at a podium in Memorial Church, with wooden panels in the background.

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

Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese

Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Professionalization in the academy

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

by Louis Menand

In Nganyahun village, a Red Cross volunteer and a community leader who work with GMin teach residents how to put up bed nets.

David Sengeh combats malaria by distributing bed nets in rural Sierra Leone

Combating malaria by distributing bed nets in Sierra Leone

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Harvard students volunteer in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The University of Ghana campus

At the University of Ghana, Audrey White studies the history of the slave trade

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Richard Wrangham

How cooking made us human

A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.

by Jonathan Shaw

"Spaced education" improves learning

With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.

by Craig Lambert

Do maternal and paternal genes compete in children?

Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.

Orchid bees navigate turbulence by extending their massive hind legs to prevent rolling.

Orchid bees and flight turbulence

Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen

An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78