Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
by Craig Lambert
Seeing Stars
The big science of building a giant telescope
by John S. Rosenberg
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
World experts team up for a two-day conference on tobacco control in developing countries.
Boosting Science as Sequestration Looms
President Faust promotes it; Eric Lander gets a windfall.
The Politics of Climate Change Legislation
A distinguished panel considers why Congress failed to pass economy-wide measures to cap carbon emissions.
Connecting with Prisoners and Their World
Courses and programs bring Harvard students and scholars face-to-face with inmates and the communities they come from.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Brevia
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more
Harvard Portrait: Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.
The Annotated Falcon
An item in the history of note-taking
by Christopher Reed
Cheating the Reaper
New study reveals just how many years of life are added by varying levels of exercise.
by Erin O'Donnell