Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
The “Water Cooler” Effect
Proximity appears to foster quality.
Fathoming Metabolism
The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Public’s “Hard Problems”
An online discussion and poll revise the list of “hard problems” in the social sciences drafted by scholars at a Harvard symposium last year.
Designing from Life
Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has made a fast start.
by Courtney Humphries
Why Whales?
On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act
by Joe Roman
The Dilemma of Choice
In a new book, All Things Shining, philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly confronts modern nihilism with a guide for learning how to live a meaningful life.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Inflorescence of a Lily
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan has solved another everyday secret: what makes the Asiatic lily bloom.
Lepore and Longfellow
The historian reexamines the poet.
Harvard and Latin America
President Faust visits Chile and Brazil.
The Human Genome Map, 10 Years Later
A panel of scientists examines the impact of a landmark discovery.