Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
The Gravity of Glacial Melt
Deciphering sea levels
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Vincent Brown
The professor of African and African American studies uses multiple media to study slavery.
Secret Ballots, Verifiable Votes
The online voting system Helios offers a prototype for transparency and security in elections.
History Quantified
Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history
by Elizabeth Gudrais
The Pay Problem
Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation
by Jay Lorsch , Rakesh Khurana
For Clean Water, An Approach That Works
A Harvard professor's project in Kenya strives to avoid common pitfalls of development work.
Nine Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The disciplines represented range from economics and sociology to statistics, applied physics, and medicine.
Solving the Social Sciences’ Hard Problems
Scholars from Harvard and elsewhere name their fields' most pressing problems, and open a forum for public debate on the Web.
China: Harvard's Expanding Engagement
The University opens a major new facility to encourage research, student involvement, and teaching across the disciplines and professions.
The Chinese Century?
Remarks by William C. Kirby