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 Lecturer’s Syria Program Canceled
Recent unrest derailed Marshall Ganz's leadership development project for youth.
The Physics of Jackson Pollock’s Art
Harvard mathematician Lakshinarayan Mahadevan and colleagues have gleaned insights into the artist's painting technique.
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Peter Der Manuelian
Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.
Snuffing Flames with Electricity
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
by Jonathan Shaw
Women and Alcohol
Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
by Christian Flow
Reefs at Risk
The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.
by Jonathan Shaw