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

Right Now | January-February 2010

Grabbing Flu by the Neck

Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel

by Jonathan Shaw

If it were not for an elegant design, your DNA might be a tangle of crossed lines and knots. Graduate student Erez Lieberman-Aiden was part of a team that discovered how the genome packs information accessibly into a tiny ball of hierarchical folds.

Right Now | January-February 2010

Genomic Architecture

Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.

by Courtney Humphries

Right Now | January-February 2010

Family or Fortune

Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Kerr practices outside to “feel the sensations of the sun and wind and the ground beneath my feet.”

New England Regional | January-February 2010

Easing Ills through Tai Chi

Researchers study the benefits of this mind-body exercise.

by Nell Porter-Brown

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