Faculty & Research
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship
by Jonathan Shaw
Squirrely
How the gray squirrels came to Harvard Yard
Harvard Portrait: John Asher Johnson
An exoplanet hunter joins the faculty
In Myanmar, with Proximity Designs
A social enterprise works to improve farmers' economic prospects
Sowing Seeds
From supporting farmers to probing policy, Harvard people help Myanmar remake its future.
by John S. Rosenberg
The Fix in Fossil Fuels
Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.
by Laura Levis
A Poet’s March of Ages
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
by Erin O'Donnell
Made in the U.S.A.
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
by Adam Kirsch
Popular Science
In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.
by Katherine Xue
Disrupted Lives
Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Wearable Robots
Harvard engineers build soft exosuits to aid human movement.
by Katherine Xue