Faculty & Community

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Alan Garber speaking at a podium in Memorial Church, with wooden panels in the background.

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

New NAS members Andrew W. Murray, Jeff W. Lichtman, and Vamsi K. Mootha

National Academy of Sciences Adds Harvard faculty, alumni

Eleven faculty members and 11 alumni are honored.

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler opened the two-day conference with a reading from her recent memoir.

Harvard conference discusses gender in medicine and public health

A Radcliffe conference examines the role of gender in medicine and public health.

David I. Laibson

Pershing Squares Ackman funds Harvard initiative

Hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and Karen Ackman donate $26 million.

Rohini Pande

Harvard economist Rohini Pande assesses the impact of public policies

Economist Rohini Pande assesses the impact of public policies.

Joseph Conrad in 1916. In the background, ships entering the Suez Canal, circa 1888-90: harbingers of globalization

Maya Jasanoff sees uses of fiction in study of history

Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.

by Craig Lambert

Changes in climate have surprisingly far-reaching economic effects.

Economists begin quantifying the economic effects of climate change

Climate change has diverse and far-reaching economic effects.

by Katherine Xue

Alison Wood Brooks

Get excited to perform well

Under pressure, getting excited yields better results than remaining calm.

by Erin O’Donnell

Hanoi’s streets (in 2007, above) are now full of motorcycles and scooters, and shop shelves are no longer bare.

Harvard and Vietnam’s economic development

During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.

by John S. Rosenberg

The inscription below this bust of Vidyasagar quotes Rabindranath Tagore: “The chief glories of [his] character were neither his compassion nor his learning, but his invincible manliness and imperishable humanity.” The presence of a garland speaks to the reverence many still feel for the man.

Brief life of Indian reformer Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, by Brian A. Hatcher

Brief life of an Indian reformer: 1820-1891

by Brian A. Hatcher

Michael Gilmore directs the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance. He has used genomic techniques to trace the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance spreads even as scientists and doctors race to stop it

As antibiotic resistance spreads, scientists and doctors race time.

by Katherine Xue