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

Collecting Ukraine

One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

What Drives Successful Crowdsourcing?

Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.

by Michael Fitzgerald

Tax Collection and Civil Society

Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harnessing Evolution

David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe and the Right

In a fractious election season, the Schlesinger Library held a discussion about ideology, trust, and how to expand its reach.

by Sophia Nguyen

Can Happiness Make You Healthier?

Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Super Drugs for Super Bugs

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

by Erin O'Donnell

Global Health at Home

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

Death Throes

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan

Toward Democracy in America

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy