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
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
by Sophia Nguyen
Poised for Partnerships
School of engineering positioned to tackle big, cross-disciplinary societal problems, says new dean.
What Ails the Academy?
American higher education and its discontents
by John S. Rosenberg
The Civilizing Art
The poetry of John Milton
Termites’ Cathedral Mounds
Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.
by Sophia Nguyen
The Data on Drama
Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.
by Jonathan Shaw
Chronicler of Two Americas
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
by Christoph Irmscher
Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity
Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
by Laura Levis
Prize Patter
Run-up to this year's Ig Nobel ceremony: an on-the-scene report.
by Bailey Trela
Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever
A School of Public Health study uses cell-phone records to predict the spread of dengue fever.
by Zara Zhang