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

Dr. Keith Flaherty's Quest for a Miracle Cancer Drug

The New York Times profiles a Harvard Medical School lecturer's quest for a miracle drug that saves lives—and the lives lost along the way.

Hausmann and Hidalgo find wealthier economies are also more complex

The most prosperous countries have economies that produce a variety of goods.

by Jonathan Shaw

Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics

Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.

by Courtney Humphries

Changing, Challenging China

A Harvard Magazine roundtable

Emma Dench teaches Roman history and lit

Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.

Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness

Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.

by Craig Lambert

Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one

Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.

by Jonathan Shaw

Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty

Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.

Harvard Headlines: Derek Bok, Ellen Langer, Lawrence Lessig

A review of Bok's new book, The Politics of Happiness; a profile of positive-psychology pioneer Langer; Lessig's suggestions for reforming Congress

Background and links for the participants in our China panel discussion

Background on the faculty members and alumni who discuss contemporary China's rising power—and persistent problems—in the magazine's probing roundtable