Faculty & Research


FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding

“To preserve our mission, we must act now,” Hoekstra says at faculty meeting

by Jonathan Shaw

“He Found Himself at a Loss”

MGH program for caregivers began with a famed cardiologist’s firsthand experience.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Off the Shelf

Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more

A More Generous, Capacious America

The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors

by Christoph Irmscher

Where the Grass Is Greener

Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

by Jonathan Shaw

Caring for the Caregivers

What it's like to look after a loved one with dementia

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Immunity Engineer

Teaching T-cells to kill cancer—and other feats of biomedical science

by Veronique Greenwood

Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

by Jonathan Shaw

Focus on Finances

Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate

by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg

News in Brief

Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more

Reforming Misdemeanors

In more misdemeanor cases, prosecutors should decline to proceed from the start.

by Max J. Krupnick