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.
Crows Know How to Have Fun
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve: helping low-income families deal with debt
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
New addiction risks in the war on smoking
Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.
John Rawls and the remaking of political philosophy
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Isaac Kohane studies exceptional responders
Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?
An electrical engineer and applied mathematician, in brief
For a star electrical engineering professor, it's all about systems.
by Jacob Sweet
Hansjörg Wyss boosts biologically inspired engineering
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.
Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
David Damrosch promotes world literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach