Faculty & Research

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Isaac Kohlberg to Step Down as Head of Harvard Technology Development

Partnerships and licensing office could become more critical as funding cuts loom

by Jonathan Shaw

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

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.