Faculty & Research
FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding
“To preserve our mission, we must act now,” Hoekstra says at faculty meeting
by Jonathan Shaw
The Cell’s Power Plant
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Language of Behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
by Jonathan Shaw
Gut Flora Fix for Fitness?
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
by John A. Griffin
From the Archives: Democracy’s Prospects
A Harvard Magazine Roundtable
Fixing America’s Heartland
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
Violent Innovations
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
by John A. Griffin
Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
by Philip S. Koch
Rebel Lawyer
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
by Lydialyle Gibson
Shifting Sands
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
by Sophia Nguyen