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

Bacteria Could Help Prevent Malaria, New Harvard Study Finds

Harvard scientists find Wolbachia protective.

by Aidan Langston

Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard

Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.

by Aidan Langston

Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, says Gareth Olds of Harvard Business School

Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Emotional connections key to successful cross-disciplinary research

A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.

by Zara Zhang

Why evolution favors sex

Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.

by Erin O’Donnell

The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics

How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics

by Idrees Kahloon

Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA

Feng Zhang ’04 and his team build on previous discoveries in editing DNA.

by Aidan Langston

Centennial Medalists 2016

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.

Narrowing School Achievement Gaps

The Harvard Graduate School of Education launches “By All Means” initiative.

by Aidan Langston