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.
Bowen and McPherson, “Lesson Plan,” reviewed by Clayton Spencer
A focused briefing on degree-attainment, democracy, and economic opportunity
Harvard's New England plant collections published online
Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.
Why is exercise hard?
Evolution shaped humans to rest—and to run only when absolutely necessary.
Printing wires in three dimensions
A new kind of 3-D printer forms wires in midair.
Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”
Sociologist Anthony Jack studies two types of low-income students.
Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
Sexual Violence in India’s Headlines
Joanna Jolly takes issue with rape coverage in the media.
Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?
Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare.
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.
Harvard Study Shows How Antibiotics Disrupt Babies’ Microbiomes
Killing good bugs as well as bad may harm early immune “education,” say Harvard scientists.