Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Professor of Organizational Behavior Paul Lawrence Dies

The pioneering professor at Harvard Business School died November 1 at age 89.

The Ginkgo’s Secrets: A Video

Ginkgo expert Peter Del Tredici shares tidbits about his favorite "living fossil."

Wealth Inequality: A Harvard Take

Michael Norton surveys Harvard alumni perceptions and preferences about wealth distribution.

Far Away

An undergraduate travels to Namibia in the hope that, by flinging herself to a faraway place, she will figure things out.

by Katherine Xue

How the Web Affects Memory

Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.

by Alexander Bloom

What We Know About Wealth

Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Life: The Edited Version

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.

by Courtney Humphries

A Bet and a Black Hole

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Living Dinosaur

Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival

by Jill Jonnes

Spheres of Knowledge

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw