Faculty & Research
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship
by Jonathan Shaw
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
A Cucumber Coil Conundrum
In the plant's tendrils, L. Mahadevan and colleagues discover a new type of spring.
by Erin O'Donnell
The Deadliest Virus
Modified H5N1 could infect a billion people if it escapes the lab.
by David Levin
The Prison Problem
Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America
by Elizabeth Gudrais
How Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
by Michael J. Klarman
Vita: Alexander Hamilton Rice
Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956
by Mark J. Plotkin
A Cardiac Conundrum
How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart
by Alice Park