Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
The Great Red Enigma
The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.
by Veronique Greenwood
A New Light on DNA Storage
Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.
by Steve Nadis
Roxanne Guenette
Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions
by Jonathan Shaw
Due Process
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
by Reed Gochberg
Seeing Life
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
by William Friedman
“A Prayer for Our Country”
Author Isabel Wilkerson kicks off a Harvard speaker series on storytelling and public health.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
“We must begin to confront the reality of a past in which academic curiosity and opportunity overwhelmed humanity,” Harvard president Lawrence Bacow wrote.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
by Jonathan Shaw
First-Gen Inclusion and Belonging
Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
by John S. Rosenberg