Faculty & Community
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel Wins Philosophy’s Berggruen Prize
The creator of the popular ‘Justice’ course receives a $1 million award.
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
Alice Hamilton at Harvard—Pioneer for Women in Medicine
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Brief Harvard News Spring 2025
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Making Green Energy Projects Financially Viable
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
Biology's "Mirror Organisms"—And Their Dangers
Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.
by Ann Thomas
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking
Founder of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab on a mindset held across the bipartisan divide
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
A Harvard briefing on climate change and the U.S. housing crisis
Remembering Harvard Professor and Composer Earl Kim
A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.