Faculty & Research
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship
by Jonathan Shaw
Curbing Clots
Rutin, a substance found in apples, could help prevent heart attacks and stroke.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Two Steps to Free Will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
by Craig Lambert
Xiao-Li Meng Appointed Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School
The statistics professor succeeds Allan Brandt.
Sharkskin Swimsuits’ Surface Swifter?
Research by Harvard ichthyologist George Lauder suggests otherwise.
Increased Risk of Ozone Loss above United States
Link to climate change seen
Playing Nice in the Sandbox
RockSalt software improves app security.
Calorie-burning “Beige Fat” Identified
Cells isolated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may aid anti-obesity efforts.
Reinhart Named Professor at Kennedy School
The coauthor of the bestseller This Time is Different arrived July 1.
Writing through the Haze
A young journalist gains experience in Chile.
by Andrew Chow
Pottery Predates Agriculture
Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.