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

Video: Clues in the blood: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics

Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics.

“Water cooler" effect may improve scientific research

Proximity appears to foster quality.

Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health

The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.

by Jonathan Shaw

Public input revises a list of important “hard problems” in the social sciences

An online discussion and poll revise the list of “hard problems” in the social sciences drafted by scholars at a Harvard symposium last year.

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering makes a fast start

Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has made a fast start.

by Courtney Humphries

Excerpt: Joe Roman's "Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act"

On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act

by Joe Roman

Sean Dorrance Kelly’s "All Things Shining" and the pursuit of a meaningful life

In a new book, All Things Shining, philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly confronts modern nihilism with a guide for learning how to live a meaningful life.

by Jonathan Shaw

L. Mahadevan on What Makes the Asiatic Lily Bloom

A Harvard professor explores the physical forces that open a flower bud.

Jill Lepore on Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"

The historian reexamines the poet.

Harvard president Drew Faust visits Chile and Brazil

President Faust visits Chile and Brazil.