Faculty & Research
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Isaac Kohlberg to Step Down as Head of Harvard Technology Development
Partnerships and licensing office could become more critical as funding cuts loom
by Jonathan Shaw
These Bots Were Made for Walking
Two Harvard research groups design exosuits to improve mobility.
by Alisha Ukani
Star Power in Politics
Why people vote for celebrities—even when they say they don’t want to.
by Jonathan Shaw
Sarah Lewis
An art historian on race and photography
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Probing Psychoses
Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.
by Courtney Humphries
Trump to Research: Drop Dead
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
by John S. Rosenberg
The Rise of Vegan Culture
Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle
by Sophia Nguyen
How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.
by Oset Babür
Studying Zika
Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
by Matthew Disler
China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen
Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Is Epigenetics Inherited?
Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.
by Jonathan Shaw