Faculty & Research
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise.
by Olivia Farrar
Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research
University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations
by Max J. Krupnick
FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding
“To preserve our mission, we must act now,” Hoekstra says at faculty meeting
by Jonathan Shaw
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
Alumni and faculty letters urge Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom.
by Max J. Krupnick
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Quality of Care
Lisa Iezzoni explores the unmet needs of patients with disabilities.
by Lydialyle Gibson
News in Brief
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
by Erin O’Donnell
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson