Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
Bearer of Bad News
Roubini's pessimistic prognostications have won such supporters as Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff; Jeffrey Sachs ’76, Ph.D. ’81...
Eye on Iran and Israel
"This autumn may be Israel's last and best chance to go after Iran's nuclear capability," Feldman wrote in the New York Times Magazine recently...
A Call for Credit-Card Disclosure
Proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending regulations would be a welcome change, Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein argued on the Wall Street Journal opinion page last week...
Scary Superbugs
The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war against these powerful microbes. Hospitals and doctors have overused "last-resort" antibiotics, leading to...
Harvard Scientists Create First Disease-Specific Human Stem Cell Lines
Kevin Eggan, an assistant professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, announced in Science that he had used the technique to create...
XDR-TB Can Be Treated
More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru...
Glaeser: Tax Credits for Home Heating Won't Help
Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn't like the Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act, which would give each American household a tax credit for a third of the household's energy costs...
Times Columnist Likes Katz, Goldin Take on Education and Economy
American young adults today have more education than their parents—but the growth rate of educational attainment from one generation to the next has slowed significantly...
Researchers Identify Autism Genes
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six genes they believe play a crucial role in autism...
Bioengineering Report Released
Among the report's major recommendations are the hiring of a minimum of 20 new faculty members in the joint field and the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula...