Faculty & Research


Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward

And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship

by Jonathan Shaw

Advancing the Science and Art of Teaching

Highlights from the second University-wide Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching conference

Factor That Reverses Aging of Heart Discovered

A protein that circulates in the blood of young mice reverses cardiac hypertrophy in old mice.

GSAS Celebrates Harvard Horizons Scholars

A new program recognizes eight doctoral students whose ideas, innovations, and insights could change their fields.

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2013-14 Fellows

Fifteen Harvard faculty members chosen.

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