Faculty & Research
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Success Fighting AIDS in Africa
A symposium at Harvard School of Public Health reflects on the school's PEPFAR-funded programs in Tanzania, Botswana, and Nigeria.
Gun Violence: A Public Health Issue
Four Harvard experts convened at the School of Public Health to debate public-health approaches to the topic of gun violence.
Barry Mazur Awarded National Medal of Science
Gade University Professor, eminent mathematician, recognized by President Obama.
edX: The Second Season
New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece
A Community Innovation Lab
I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.
Making Harvard Green
The first University-wide Sustainability Impact Report reveals challenging goals.
Brutish Beginnings
The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans
by Daniel K. Richter
A Dazzling Flat Lens
Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.
by Jonathan Shaw
Survival of the Cooperative
The breeding behavior of tropical cuckoos, in which unrelated adults share a communal nest, proves an exception to the theory of kin selection.
by W. Barksdale Maynard
Immobile Labor
Land-use restrictions lead to growing income disparities between states, Kennedy School researchers find.