Faculty

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Michèle Duguay, lecturer in music at Harvard University

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

HBS study finds positive Yelp.com reviews lead to increased business

Independent restaurants benefit more than chains.

Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband on beliefs and medical choices

In Your Medical Mind, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband write about beliefs and medical choices.

Sue Goldie, Daniel Lord Smail, George Whitesides featured in New York Times

Professors Goldie, Smail, and Whitesides all work on topics featured in one day’s New York Times

A student using a "Tapminder" device in the men's bathroom

The Lab @ Harvard’s fall exhibition featured innovative ideas

The Lab @ Harvard’s fall exhibition featured innovative ideas from students across the globe.

Michael Norton

Michael Norton surveys Harvard alumni preferences on wealth distribution

Take a professor's poll on alumni opinions about the distribution of wealth in America.

From a vantage point south of Western Avenue in Allston, looking northeast toward Harvard Square, the unfinished science complex dominates the foreground. Beyond it lie athletic fields that may yield to expansion by the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Education, or other academic enterprises. A business “enterprise research campus” is envisioned south of Western Avenue, across from the high-rise graduate-student housing at One Western Avenue.

Allston work team recommendations endorsed by Harvard Corporation

A multiyear process of planning, community engagement, and prospective development is outlined.

Students learn about computer skills in a classroom at Christ is the Answer Preparatory School in Adansi-Dompoase, outside Kumasi. According to school proprietor Anthony Kwasi Nyarku, private schools such as his are superior to Ghanaian public schools because the government-run schools are often under-supervised and a strong union protects the sometimes negligent teachers.

An undergraduate volunteer looks at Ghana's growing private-school system

An undergraduate captures Ghana's growing private-school system in photographs.

by Sara Joe Wolansky

The students and a group of farmers walk along a road to a cacao farm in Bonsaaso district, a part of the UN Millennium Villages Project.

An undergraduate documents the impact of rural banking in Ghana

An undergraduate documents the impact of microfinance and rural banking in Ghana.

by Nur Nasreen Ibrahim

The Mediterranean at Nice.

An undergraduate finds that her attempts to blend in are lost in translation

An undergraduate journalism intern in France gets lost in translation, but found by new friends.

by Nathalie Miraval

An undergraduate journalism intern searches Seoul for the best "bingsu" dessert

An undergraduate journalism intern explores Korea's shaved-ice cafés—and her feelings about being a food writer.

by Jane Seo