Faculty

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

Online voting system Helios offers prototype for transparent, secure elections

The online voting system Helios offers a prototype for transparency and security in elections.

Jared Diamond and James Robinson apply "natural experiments" to studying histor

Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Brief life of Malawian nationalist Masauko Chipembere

Brief life of a pioneering African nationalist: 1930-1975

Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?

Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Harvard Center Shanghai opens

A new center in Shanghai reflects Harvard’s growing engagement with the People’s Republic.

Michael Kremer's Group Aims To Bring Safe Drinking Water to the Developing World

A Harvard professor's project in Kenya strives to avoid common pitfalls of development work.

Nine Harvard faculty elected National Academy of Sciences

The disciplines represented range from economics and sociology to statistics, applied physics, and medicine.

Scholars from Harvard and beyond address "hard problems" in the social sciences

Scholars from Harvard and elsewhere name their fields' most pressing problems, and open a forum for public debate on the Web.

Harvard opens major China office

The University opens a major new facility to encourage research, student involvement, and teaching across the disciplines and professions.