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
Dr. Keith Flaherty's Quest for a Miracle Cancer Drug
The New York Times profiles a Harvard Medical School lecturer's quest for a miracle drug that saves lives—and the lives lost along the way.
Hausmann and Hidalgo find wealthier economies are also more complex
The most prosperous countries have economies that produce a variety of goods.
Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics
Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.
Changing, Challenging China
A Harvard Magazine roundtable
Emma Dench teaches Roman history and lit
Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one
Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.
Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty
Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.
Harvard Headlines: Derek Bok, Ellen Langer, Lawrence Lessig
A review of Bok's new book, The Politics of Happiness; a profile of positive-psychology pioneer Langer; Lessig's suggestions for reforming Congress
Background and links for the participants in our China panel discussion
Background on the faculty members and alumni who discuss contemporary China's rising power—and persistent problems—in the magazine's probing roundtable