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.
Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
by James Hanken
Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases
Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.
Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse
Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.
John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
Harvard and world astronomers building Giant Magellan Telescope
The big science of building a giant telescope
HSPH and the World Health Organization team up to challenge Big Tobacco globally
World experts team up for a two-day conference on tobacco control in developing countries.
Support for Science: Harvard’s Faust at AAAS; Broad's Lander wins $3 million
President Faust promotes it; Eric Lander gets a windfall.
The failed effort to enact cap and trade legislation to fight global warming
A distinguished panel considers why Congress failed to pass economy-wide measures to cap carbon emissions.