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

Federal funding at risk

The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science

by John S. Rosenberg

A Harvard sociologist studies how veganism went from tasteless to trendy

Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle

by Sophia Nguyen

How U.S. companies stole American jobs

Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.

by Oset Babür

Why Trump Won the Republican Primary?

Why people vote for celebrities—even when they say they don’t want to.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Portrait: Sarah Lewis

An art historian on race and photography

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness

Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.

by Courtney Humphries

Studying Zika

Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread. 

by Matthew Disler

Fake social media posts aim to distract

Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Epigenetic inheritance explained by in-utero exposures

Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.

by Jonathan Shaw

Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings

Do workplace environments contribute to poor health for employees? 

by Oset Babür