Faculty & Research
Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
This week in the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration
by Nina Pasquini
A Pandemic Full of Heartbreaks
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
by Lydialyle Gibson
COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought
A critical scientific question that bears on policies for fighting the pandemic
by Jonathan Shaw
At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard
A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
A Radcliffe Institute online discussion of health disparities laid bare by coronavirus
by Lydialyle Gibson
Fixing the COVID-19 Swab Supply Chain
Engineers at the Wyss Institute address a critical shortage of nasal swabs.
by Jonathan Shaw
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
Highlights from our wide-ranging coverage of the environment
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
Susan Murphy
Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana
by Lydialyle Gibson
Will Truth Prevail?
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
by Drew Pendergrass
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova