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 programs bring students together with inmates and their neighborhoods
Courses and programs bring Harvard students and scholars face-to-face with inmates and the communities they come from.
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean, social investing
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more
Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager, pediatric psychiatrists and authors
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.
Japanese falconry preserved by note-taking
An item in the history of note-taking
Years of life added by exercise is now quantified by research
New study reveals just how many years of life are added by varying levels of exercise.
L. Mahadevan discovers new type of spring in the coiled tendrils of a cucumber
In the plant's tendrils, L. Mahadevan and colleagues discover a new type of spring.
Marc Lipsitch warns against experimentation with modified H5N1 virus
Modified H5N1 could infect a billion people if it escapes the lab.
by David Levin
Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies
Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin
Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956