Faculty & Community
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise.
Baking Sourdough Bread is a Survival Instinct
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
by Jacob Sweet
Allston Research Campus Takes Form
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
An intellectual history of the Cold War era
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
Clues to the persistence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.
Using DNA for data storage
Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.
by Steve Nadis
Harvard Portrait: Roxanne Guenette
Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions
Jeannie Suk Gersen of Harvard Law School, profiled by Lydialyle Gibson
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
Isabel Wilkerson speaks at Harvard about racism storytelling and public health
Author Isabel Wilkerson kicks off a Harvard speaker series on storytelling and public health.