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
Zora Neale Hurston in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
by Brandon J. Dixon
From the Archives: Unequal Incomes
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
by Richard B. Freeman
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?
Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
by Oset Babür
Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated by Female MDs?
The “glass ceiling” in the operating room
by Oset Babür
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Brain in the Basement
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
by Jonathan Shaw
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
by Courtney Humphries
Writing Crime into Race
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
by Lydialyle Gibson