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
Susan Dunn reviews Jefferson biography by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
Thomas Jefferson's “fractal” view of American self-governance
by Susan Dunn
Harvard Portrait: James Mickens
A Harvard computer scientist on how to build a universe
Harvard historians: ice records shed light on medieval climate
Historians at Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past investigate ice cores.
Economists debate the merits of school choice
Economists rethink the merits of school-choice systems.
Harvard study estimates cancer risk in twins
A new study offers a clearer picture of how genetics and the environment influence cancer risk in families.
Harvard MIT climate research
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Harvard's David Parkes on artificial intelligence and economic reasoning
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
Harvard’s Wyss Institute has developed organs-on-chips to transform drug testing
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
by Laura Levis
Comparing the end of the death penalty in France and America
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
Harvard’s new dean of Engineering and applied sciences outlines goals
School of engineering positioned to tackle big, cross-disciplinary societal problems, says new dean.