Faculty & Research


Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward

And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe Institute Fellow Trethewey Named Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey was a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

When Having Babies Beats Marriage

Kathryn Edin of Harvard Kennedy School explains why more and more American children are born out of wedlock.

by Kevin Hartnett

Harvard Honors John Adams, Wendy Kopp, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria

Eight awarded honorary degrees at 361st Commencement exercises

Harvard Graduate School Honors Daniel Aaron, Nancy Hopkins, and Others

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers its 2012 Centennial Medals

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2012-2013 Fellows

Harvard’s advanced-study center plans 51 resident academics, artists

On the Origins of the Arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

A (Protein) Social Network

A map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

by Courtney Humphries

An Ancient Herbal Remedy

Malcolm Whitman reveals how the blue evergreen hydrangea stops autoimmune disease.

Mysteries of Mate Choice

How personal preferences drive our choice of mates—as understood through an online dating site.

by Erin O'Donnell

Animal Research Reforms

Harvard Medical School's primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care

by Carolyn Y. Johnson