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.
Our Psychotropic Lives
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.
Save Yourself
Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.
The Internet: Foe of Democracy?
The Internet, by allowing like-minded individuals to self-segregate, has had a polarizing effect on democracy, suggests Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein..
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
Mapping Africa
Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.
Decisionmaking, Measured
A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.
Helping Those Most in Need
With support from the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard scholars aim to help some of the most vulnerable groups of children.
Who Was Lincoln, Really?
Honoring the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, Lincoln scholars attempt to cut through myth and legend to reveal the real man.
Obama's Daunting International Agenda
Journalist David E. Sanger's new book outlines the huge international security challenges facing the new administration.