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 researchers discuss Southern politics’ roots in slavery

A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard’s Bok Players get audiences “below the neck”

A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.

by Sophia Nguyen

Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer

Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.

by Jonathan Shaw

Money Can’t Buy Love, But Here’s What Can

New research proves that couples should spend money to increase quality time spent together.

by Oset Babür

Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist

Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011

by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

How news outlets have the power to change conversation

Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.

by Oset Babür

The building blocks of how babies reason

Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Sexual imprinting and speciation in deer mice

Mate choice is often controlled by genetics, but sometimes culture plays a role.

by Sophia Nguyen