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

Computational Control of a Living Brain?

How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.

by Jonathan Shaw

Controlling AI Influence over Consumers

When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

by Jonathan Shaw

Cousins in the Ancient World

Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA

by Jonathan Shaw

Solving Dehydration

A simple solution that saved millions

by Max J. Krupnick

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

How to Make a Mammal

Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson