Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

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.

New Applied Science Degree

The master’s in computational science and engineering launches in 2013.

A Note to Our Readers - Lawrence Lessig Q&A

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Thinking Outside the Pack

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.

Why Nations Fail

James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.