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.
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis
The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions
Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?
Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others
Underwriting Sustainability Studies
A $200-million gift for the Salata Institute
The Causes of Long COVID
Trying to understand infections’ persistent effects—and to develop cures
“A Moral Obligation”
Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library
Stephanie Gil Helps Robots Work Better Together
Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
Harvard's Black-Hole Debunker
Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
by Isabel Mehta
$200 Million Gift Underwrites Climate and Sustainability Institute
Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
Fracking’s Deadly Toll
Harvard researchers find that fracking shortens the lives of elderly Americans living downwind of unconventional oil and gas wells.