Faculty & Research
Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
This week in the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration
by Nina Pasquini
History from Below
Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Passive Corporate Governance
Index funds cast a large proportion of proxy votes in U.S. companies, but take a hands-off approach with management.
by Erin O'Donnell
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
New England’s Forest Primeval
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
by Jonathan Shaw
An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
by Bennett McIntosh
Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Working at Beauty
The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
by Drew Pendergrass
Engineering Life
For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Blood Test for PTSD?
A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health
by Erin O'Donnell
Could College Be Free?
David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.
by Cherone Duggan