Faculty & Research

Microscope examining Harvard Medical School building held by gloved hand, with stethoscope and Harvard shields.

University News |

Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

| January-February 2011

Studying Suicide

Learn about computerized tests that evaluate whether someone is at risk of attempting suicide. Plus, related links and an article from the magazine archives.

| January-February 2011

Journey to the Amazon

In this video, travel to Brazil with Harvard climatologists to see their work and the plants and critters they encountered.

| January-February 2011

Anger Management

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston develop a video game to help children with anger problems handle their emotions. See how it works.

Matthew Nock sits in his lab’s control room, where researchers record subjects’ behavioral and physiological responses during experiments. For example, they might measure whether people who engage in self-injury show greater emotional distress, in response to frustrating tasks, than people who do not. (Nock’s lab manager and a postdoctoral fellow are seen in the adjoining room through one-way glass.)

Features | January-February 2011

A Tragedy and a Mystery

Understanding suicide and self-injury

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Bernardo Flores, Rafael Tapajós, and Hannah Horowitz ’11 learn how to analyze data gathered from a weather balloon under the supervision of Professor Steven Wofsy

Features | January-February 2011

Models—and Mud—in Amazonia

Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt in 1950

Features | January-February 2011

Kermit Roosevelt

Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000

by Gwen Kinkead

A skull session with human evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman in the fossil room at the Peabody Museum. Millions of years of natural selection have shaped the human head. From left to right: a Neanderthal; <i>Homo erectus; Homo habilis; Australopithecus africanus; Pan troglodytes</i> (common chimpanzee); <i>Homo sapiens</i> (human). “Gonzo,” a Neanderthal skeleton, stands in the back.

Features | January-February 2011

Head to Toe

Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.

by Jonathan Shaw

Amos Doolittle cheekily depicted the passions over ratification in this 1787 engraving with watercolor, with “Federals” (business interests), left, and agrarian “Antifederals,” right, differing over currency and Connecticut’s debts: a mired wagon being pulled in opposite directions.

Montage | January-February 2011

American Ratification

The great experiment in constitution-making

by Jack Rakove

A screen shot from the therapeutic video game RAGE Control (Regulate and Gain Emotional Control)

Right Now | January-February 2011

Gaming the Emotions

At Children's Hospital Boston, a video game offers emotionally explosive youths methods of self-control.

by Erin O'Donnell

Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber has created a transistor so small it can be used to penetrate cell membranes and probe their interiors, without disrupting function. The transistor (yellow) sits near the bend in a hairpin-shaped, lipid-coated silicon nanowire. Its scale is similar to that of intra-cellular structures such as organelles (pink and blue orbs) and actin filaments (pink strand).

Right Now | January-February 2011

Virus-Sized Transistors

Chemist Charles Lieber and his colleagues have developed a nanoscale transistor so small it can enter, probe, and communicate with cells without harming them.

by Jonathan Shaw