Faculty & Research
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship.
by Jonathan Shaw
Revitalizing Tozzer
Consolidating the anthropology department by raising the roof and renovating the library
Reclaiming Childhood
Theresa Betancourt studies the world’s most neglected and traumatized youths.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Q&A with Theresa Betancourt
The director of Harvard’s Research Program on Children and Global Adversity discusses her research, background, and family life.
Labor, Interrupted
The rise in the use of C-sections
Writers and Artists at Harvard
Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
An Arctic Mercury Meltdown
Arctic mercury pollution flows from rivers, not the atmosphere.
Mapping Cultural Change
The General Social Survey asks Americans about issues from race to free speech, confirming some trends and contradicting popular reports of others.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Brevia
Harvard news: Graduate School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, University Professor Eric Maskin, and more
Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd Shapley ’44 Share Nobel Prize in Economics
A faculty member and an alumnus are recognized for work on the design of markets and matching theory.
The Art of Stem Cells
Michael Wang's Differentiation Series, a sequence of micrograph images of artificially produced stem cells, is on display at the Carpenter Center through October 7.