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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good

Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.

by Bennett McIntosh

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.

by John S. Rosenberg

Inflammation causes many common diseases of aging

Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”

A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness

Replacement of Iberian Men 4,000 Years Ago Raises Fresh Questions

Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.

by Bennett McIntosh

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.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Portrait: Amy Wagers

The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.

by Oset Babür

Disadvantaged students in elite colleges

Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”

by John S. Rosenberg

Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis

Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis

by Lydialyle Gibson