Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Harvard perspectives on world economic crises
A panel of social scientists dissects past mistakes, and sees daunting fiscal and regulatory challenges ahead for the United States and Europe.
Oscar nominees include film from book by Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Harvard Rallies Help for Haiti with Benefit Concert; Plans Memorial Service
Evidence of Harvard maps in use; updates on the situation on the ground; a benefit concert featuring student performers and a memorial service.
Thoreau's Walden Pond dataset shows that climate change helps invasive species
This is what a new study by a team including Harvard scientists, using a Walden Woods dataset begun by Henry David Thoreau, suggests.
Amy Wagers Discovers a Regenerative Pathway in Blood
Aged blood stem cells in mice act young again when exposed to the circulation of a young mouse.
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Hosts Haiti Map Portal
The Center for Geographic Analysis has created an online portal and sent up-to-date high-resolution wall maps with a delegation traveling to the earthquake-stricken country.
Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
Advancing toward a universal flu vaccine
Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel
Genomic architecture
Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.
Work-life balance hard on women in finance
Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.