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.
Harvard's David Parkes on artificial intelligence and economic reasoning
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
Harvard’s Wyss Institute has developed organs-on-chips to transform drug testing
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
by Laura Levis
Comparing the end of the death penalty in France and America
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
Harvard’s new dean of Engineering and applied sciences outlines goals
School of engineering positioned to tackle big, cross-disciplinary societal problems, says new dean.
Reviews of four books on what ails American higher education
American higher education and its discontents
The Poetry of John Milton
The poetry of John Milton
Harvard study: termite mounds circulate air, sneezing once a day
Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.
Visualizing Broadway
Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.
Daniel Aaron is profiled by Christoph Irmscher
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
Michael Porter of HBS on the Social Progress Index
Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
by Laura Levis