Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Ending an Epidemic

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

The Brain-Behavior Link

Researchers hope to tease out the effects of breeding and training on dog brain structure.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Extinction of the Press?

If the press is essential to democracy, what can be done to save news organizations?

by Erin O'Donnell

Cornering COVID-19

A serological test may reveal the COVID-19 virus’s weaknesses—and expose its strategic decoys.

by Bennett McIntosh

Melissa Dell

“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The Coronavirus Campus

The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond

by John S. Rosenberg

“From Neither Here Nor There”

Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Indispensable Power

On restoring American leadership through diplomacy

by Nicholas Burns

One Small Step for Music

A professor’s interstellar reach

by Jacob Sweet

What’s Become of “Character”?

Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.