Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Accelerating the Application of Biomedical Discoveries

Blavatnik Family Foundation’s $50-million gift aims to support development of early-stage Harvard research into human cures

Breakthrough Diabetes Discovery Offers Potential Treatment

Hormone found by Harvard's Melton and Yi has the potential to change the way type 2 diabetes is treated

Harvard Medical School to Close Primate-Research Center

Harvard Medical School announced that it would discontinue the controversial facility

On Terrorism

Faculty expertise on terrorist behavior, from the magazine's archives

A Scientist in Full

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

by James Hanken

Mice Aren’t Men

Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

On the Trail of Human Diversity

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

Vita: John Usher Monro

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

The Urban Jobs Crisis

Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos

by James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang