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.
Harvard Medical Record $200 Million Research Gift
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
Genetics and the Human Revolution
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
A New Plant to Enhance Memory
Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.
by Oset Babür
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
Democracy’s Prospects TK
A Harvard Magazine Roundtable
The argument for geographically targeted economic interventions
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
When Capital Trumps Labor
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.