Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
Susan Murphy
Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana
by Lydialyle Gibson
Will Truth Prevail?
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
by Drew Pendergrass
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
by Donovan Moore
The Federal Fisc
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
by Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
The World’s Costliest Health Care
Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?
by David Cutler
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
Butterfly Wings in a New Light
A study reveals new dimensions to their function and beauty.
by Bennett McIntosh
Linking Lifestyle to Stem Cells
Exercise attenuates stem cell production of pro-inflammatory white blood cells.
by Jonathan Shaw