Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Speciation Is More Complicated Than Darwin Could Have Imagined

Research in butterflies reveals how genes flow among species—and lead to tangled genetic trees

by Bennett McIntosh

Lightning Strikes Twice

Professor Michael Kremer shares the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences with two scholars from MIT.

"Stories Are Powerful"

Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.

by Lydialyle Gibson

What Ails Modern Liberalism?

Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.

by John A. Griffin

Ryan Enos

The political scientist explains “social geography.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Permission to Know

The Undergraduate explores the ethics of gathering knowledge.

by Julie Chung

The Science of Sex

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.

by Bennett McIntosh

Forgive, but Don’t Forget

…and don’t always forgive

by Lincoln Caplan

Where Teachers Thrive, Students Do

Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.