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

This Singer sewing machine has many facets

The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object

Crowdsourcing solutions

Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.

by Michael Fitzgerald

Tax Collection and Civil Society

Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Evolution unleashed

David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life

A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life

Jennifer Lewis's quest for a 3-D printed kidney

3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Ukrainian-language collections housed at Harvard

One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

At Harvard, Ross Douthat, Charmaine Yoest, and others discuss conservatism

In a fractious election season, the Schlesinger Library held a discussion about ideology, trust, and how to expand its reach.

by Sophia Nguyen

Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

by Erin O’Donnell