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
A New Plant to Enhance Memory
Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.
by Oset Babür
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues
Can public goods survive white flight?
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Cell’s Power Plant
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Language of Behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
by Jonathan Shaw
Gut Flora Fix for Fitness?
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
by John A. Griffin
From the Archives: Democracy’s Prospects
A Harvard Magazine Roundtable
Fixing America’s Heartland
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
Violent Innovations
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
by John A. Griffin
Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
by Philip S. Koch