Faculty & Community
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.
Bin Laden death echoes in Drew Faust's Jefferson Lecture, "Telling War Stories"
President Drew Faust's Jefferson Lecture takes on an unexpected timeliness.
Designing throughways for wildlife
A winning proposal to keep cars and critters apart
Video: Clues in the blood: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics
Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics.
“Water cooler" effect may improve scientific research
Proximity appears to foster quality.
Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health
The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.
Public input revises a list of important “hard problems” in the social sciences
An online discussion and poll revise the list of “hard problems” in the social sciences drafted by scholars at a Harvard symposium last year.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering makes a fast start
Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has made a fast start.
Excerpt: Joe Roman's "Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act"
On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act
by Joe Roman
Sean Dorrance Kelly’s "All Things Shining" and the pursuit of a meaningful life
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.
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan discovers what makes the Asiatic lily bloom
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan has solved another everyday secret: what makes the Asiatic lily bloom.