Faculty & Research
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship
by Jonathan Shaw
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
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