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

Harvard’s Office for Technology Development boosts translational research

Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.

by Jonathan Shaw

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

Samuel Stouffer profile by Jackson Toby

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

Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?

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 positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants

Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.

by John A. Griffin