Faculty & Research


Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen

This week in the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration 

by Nina Pasquini

Frontiers...

Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential 

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

Resolving Inflammation

An HMS symposium highlights the immune system’s role in ending inflammation.

by Jonathan Shaw

How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It

The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova