Faculty & Research


Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research

University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations

by Max J. Krupnick

Immersed in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

"Africa for Beginners"

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

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Taming Turbulence

Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.

by Jonathan Shaw

The High-rise Ecotopia

An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78

Professor Video

Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom

by Craig Lambert

Ayn Rand

Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist

by Jennifer Burns

Critical Mass, and World-Class

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences develops a 10-year strategic plan.

Vintage Vitality

Two Harvard-trained doctors launch a practice in the emerging field of age-management medicine.

by Craig Lambert

Evolution by Fire

A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.

by Jonathan Shaw

Learning by Degrees

With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.

by Craig Lambert