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.
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years
Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Boston in Motion
An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
Vincent Brown writes war and empire into the history of slavery
Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.
Index funds defer to corporate management
Index funds cast a large proportion of proxy votes in U.S. companies, but take a hands-off approach with management.
Short-term increases in air pollution linked to several new diseases
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
Leadership without good judgment undermines government legitimacy
The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
Frontiers
A common plasticizer causes infertility, and fructose affects fat metabolism.
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
by Jacob Sweet