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

David Jones holds a vascular stent (from the Warren Anatomical Museum), designed circa 1995 by radiologist Morris Simon of Harvard Medical School.

The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided

How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart

by Alice Park

T. Berry Brazelton

Harvard pediatrician Brazelton honored for his commitment to public service

The Harvard pediatrician is honored for his commitment to public service.

An image from the cover of a book about AIDS treatment in Africa, edited by faculty members Phyllis Kanki and Richard Marlink, who spoke at the "PEPFAR in Africa" conference held at Harvard School of Public Health on January 10.

Fighting AIDS with Harvard's PEPFAR programs in Bostwana, Tanzania, and Nigeria

A symposium at Harvard School of Public Health reflects on the school's PEPFAR-funded programs in Tanzania, Botswana, and Nigeria.

David Hemenway

Harvard faculty experts discuss gun violence as a public-health matter

Four Harvard experts convened at the School of Public Health to debate public-health approaches to the topic of gun violence.

Barry Mazur

White House awards Barry Mazur, Harvard mathematician, National Medal of Science

Gade University Professor, eminent mathematician, recognized by President Obama.

HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses

New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece

Students Sneha Khullar, Laura O’Connor, Billy Pope, and Salmaan Khan suggested using a central location as  the site for a blank canvas hosting stickers filled in by community residents, as a way to spark a dialogue about the identity of Upham’s Corner.

A Harvard i-Lab class aims to solve urban and civic challenges in Upham's Corner

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

Harvard releases first University-wide Sustainability Impact Report

The first University-wide Sustainability Impact Report reveals challenging goals.

Both sides now: mutually beneficial trade between Native Americans and English people. From Theodor de Bry&rsquo;s <i>America</i> series, 1634.

Bernard Bailyn's "The Barbarous Years" reviewed by Daniel K. Richter

The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans

by Daniel K. Richter

This disortion-free flat lens, less than a millimeter across, uses antennae etched from a layer of gold, rather than glass, to focus laser light.

Lightweight, distortion-free flat lens uses antennae, not glass, to focus light

Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.

by Jonathan Shaw