Faculty & Research

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

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Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Features | January-February 2010

Conceptualizing Small

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.

Chad Cowan

Features | January-February 2010

Tools and Tests

Stem cells are being used as tools in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.

by Jonathan Shaw

Li prepares to dissect a pangolin, from a popular pamphlet, <i>Li Shizhen: Great Scholar of Medical Drugs</i> (1955).

Features | January-February 2010

Li Shizhen

Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593

by Carla Nappi

Panelists at the tenth-anniversary symposium discuss how their time as Radcliffe Fellows helped them bridge boundaries between genres. From left to right: English professor Leah Price, painter Beverly McIver, filmmaker Jeanne Jordan, composer Tarik O’Regan, filmmaker Anne Makepeace, and lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2010

Radcliffe's New Life

Harvard’s former sister college celebrates its first decade as an institute for advanced study.

Outside the Caspersen Room at the Harvard Law School Library: Ess Librarian and professor of law John G. Palfrey VII with University Library director and Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2010

Libraries on the Edge

The University's financial crisis is exacerbating existing problems in expanding, coordinating, and technologically improving the collections.

Right Now | January-February 2010

American Cheese Cultures

Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Features | November-December 2009

The Ph.D. Problem

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

by Louis Menand

In Nganyahun village, a Red Cross volunteer and a community leader who work with GMin teach residents how to put up bed nets.

| November-December 2009

A Better Bed-Net Strategy

Combating malaria by distributing bed nets in Sierra Leone

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Features | November-December 2009

Immersed in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The University of Ghana campus

| November-December 2009

"Africa for Beginners"

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais