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
China's Great Flood May Be No Myth
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Sexual Violence in India’s Headlines
Joanna Jolly takes issue with rape coverage in the media.
by Aidan Langston
Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?
Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.
by Aidan Langston
How Antibiotics Disrupt Babies’ Microbiomes
Killing good bugs as well as bad may harm early immune “education,” say Harvard scientists.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia
An exhibition of prehistoric earthenware deepens understanding of early Chinese cultures and communities.
by John S. Rosenberg
Bacteria That Fight Malaria
Harvard scientists find Wolbachia protective.
by Aidan Langston
Televangelists on Tape
Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.
by Aidan Langston
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
by Lydialyle Gibson
What Makes Teams Tick
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
by Zara Zhang