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

Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed

Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos

by James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race

Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.

by Craig Lambert

The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope

Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries. 

by John S. Rosenberg

HSPH and the World Health Organization team up to challenge Big Tobacco globally

World experts team up for a two-day conference on tobacco control in developing countries.

Support for Science: Harvard’s Faust at AAAS; Broad's Lander wins $3 million

President Faust promotes it; Eric Lander gets a windfall.

The failed effort to enact cap and trade legislation to fight global warming

A distinguished panel considers why Congress failed to pass economy-wide measures to cap carbon emissions.

Harvard programs bring students together with inmates and their neighborhoods

Courses and programs bring Harvard students and scholars face-to-face with inmates and the communities they come from.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard news: Allston development, education dean, social investing

Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more

Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager, pediatric psychiatrists and authors

The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.

Japanese falconry preserved by note-taking

An item in the history of note-taking

by Christopher Reed