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.
by Olivia Farrar
Adjacent but Unequal
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
by John S. Rosenberg
The Opioids Emergency
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
by Lydialyle Gibson
Samuel Stouffer
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
by Jackson Toby
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
by Bennett McIntosh
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Can MOOCs Predict the Future of Online Education?
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
by Jonathan Shaw
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Innovation Engine
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
by John A. Griffin
The Teddy Bear Effect
Cherubic features benefit black male CEOs, but not other groups, underscoring the complexity of social disadvantage.
by Erin O’Donnell
People Who Don’t Get AIDS
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
by Jonathan Shaw