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

Kit Parker uncovers mechanics of traumatic brain injury

Bioengineering professor’s discovery offers new hope for injured soldiers.

HBS professor Clayton Christensen questions the future of higher education

The HBS professor predicts that online education will disrupt old models.

Harvard lecturer cancels youth leadership development program in Syria

Recent unrest derailed Marshall Ganz's leadership development project for youth.

Jackson Pollock's painting technique explained by Harvard physicist

Harvard mathematician Lakshinarayan Mahadevan and colleagues have gleaned insights into the artist's painting technique.

Excerpt from Sophia Rosenfeld, "Common Sense: A Political History"

Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."

Carl Schoonover and "Portraits of the Mind" merge science and aesthetics

Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.

by Sarah Zhang

E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books

In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Peter Der Manuelian is Harvard's resident Egyptologist

Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.

George Whitesides lab snuffs small flames with electricity

Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.

by Jonathan Shaw

Shelly Greenfield's research finds gender differences in recovery from addiction

Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women

by Elizabeth Gudrais