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.
Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first century
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
Inflammation causes many common diseases of aging
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
In search of deeper learning
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
Replacement of Iberian Men 4,000 Years Ago Raises Fresh Questions
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
“The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Wage stagnation: economists look to new explanations
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Improved gene editing moves ethical questions to the fore
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.