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

Harvard scientists create first disease-specific human stem cell lines

Kevin Eggan, an assistant professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, announced in Science that he had used the technique to create...

XDR-TB Can Be Treated

More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru...

Glaeser: Tax Credits for Home Heating Won't Help

Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn't like the Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act, which would give each American household a tax credit for a third of the household's energy costs...

Times Columnist Likes Katz, Goldin Take on Education and Economy

American young adults today have more education than their parents—but the growth rate of educational attainment from one generation to the next has slowed significantly...

Researchers Identify Autism Genes

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six genes they believe play a crucial role in autism...

Bioengineering Report Released

Among the report's major recommendations are the hiring of a minimum of 20 new faculty members in the joint field and the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula...

The Seductions of Snooping

Historian of science Kristie Macrakis's book on spying techniques used by communist East Germany's secret police.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Raiders Rehabilitated

Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and coauthors offer a revisionist view of corporate raiders and their Gordon Gekko image after reviewing 5,000 buyouts...

by Josh Lerner

What Stress Reveals

Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...

by Jonathan Shaw

Your Money, or Your Life?

The promise of a more fulfilling approach to personal finance: George Kinder, author of Seven Stages of Money Maturity, explains how financial planning is an emotional process...

by Nell Porter-Brown