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
Writing Crime into Race
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Particulate Problem
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
by Oset Babür
He Has Made the World a Safer Place
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
by Jonathan Shaw
Risk-Taking Lizards
How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Trimming Truancy
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Disinformation Dilemma
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
by Oset Babür
Slavery’s Southern Legacy
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.
by Sophia Nguyen
Educational Improv
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
by Sophia Nguyen