Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine
Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scientists examine the impact of the human genome map, 10 years later
A panel of scientists examines the impact of a landmark discovery.
Profile of anti-smoking guru Gregory N. Connolly
The former smoker turned anti-smoking guru directs Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Global Tobacco Control.