Faculty & Research
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise.
by Olivia Farrar
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...
Eye on the Universe
The cosmic drama, as seen from a vantage in space: Harvard astronomers highlight important images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
by Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling
Maxim Gorky
Brief life of a great enigma, the Russian author and political propagandist born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov: 1868-1936...
by Donald Fanger
A Plague Reborn
The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...
by Jonathan Shaw
Joanna Aizenberg
A bioengineer learns from sponges...
The Seductions of Snooping
Historian of science Kristie Macrakis's book on spying techniques used by communist East Germany's secret police.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Raiders Rehabilitated
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and coauthors offer a revisionist view of corporate raiders and their Gordon Gekko image after reviewing 5,000 buyouts...
by Josh Lerner
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...
by Jonathan Shaw