Faculty & Research


Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research

University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations

by Max J. Krupnick

Ulysses S. Grant

Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines

by Jonathan Shaw

Native Modern

Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity

Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.

by Idrees Kahloon

Remembering: Information as Art

“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA

by Nell Porter-Brown

India's Dropping Wind-Power Potential

Diminishing winds may be a harbinger of further climate-change damage to come.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Quantum Science Initiative

Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift

Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.

Genetics and the Human Revolution

Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human? 

by Bennett McIntosh

A New Plant to Enhance Memory

Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.

by Oset Babür