Faculty & Research


Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research

University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations

by Max J. Krupnick

Poised for Partnerships

School of engineering positioned to tackle big, cross-disciplinary societal problems, says new dean.

What Ails the Academy?

American higher education and its discontents

by John S. Rosenberg

Termites’ Cathedral Mounds

Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.

by Sophia Nguyen

The Data on Drama

Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.

by Jonathan Shaw

Chronicler of Two Americas

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity

Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.

by Laura Levis

Prize Patter

Run-up to this year's Ig Nobel ceremony: an on-the-scene report.

by Bailey Trela

Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever

A School of Public Health study uses cell-phone records to predict the spread of dengue fever.

by Zara Zhang

Design Engineering Debuts

Two Harvard faculties collaborate, aiming to solve real-world problems.

by John S. Rosenberg