Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Stem Cells in the New Year

Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of stem-cell research...

The Rise of Faculty Centrism

Politically, U.S. professors are less liberal than many people believe, but their ranks also include fewer conservatives than in the early...

Bruce Western

Photograph by Jim Harrison Bruce Western His interest in prisons began “almost by accident,” says the new director of the Kennedy...

Retooling Tech Transfer

When physicist Eric Mazur’s research group created a new material called black silicon one day in 1998, he knew right away they were on to...

Science and Sleep on Line

The University’s Office of News and Public Affairs has debuted HarvardScience (https://harvardscience.harvard.edu), a website on...

Making a Case against the Courts

How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the Constitution as the Founding Fathers would wish?...

Global Gains

Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during...

Teaching and Learning Abroad

Mollie wright ’09 expected to spend her summer in Costa Rica teaching English. She was, after all, a volunteer for WorldTeach, a...

Repressed Memory

Are some experiences so horrific that the human brain seals them away, only to recall them years later? The concept of “repressed...

Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly

Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the...