Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
Harvard scholars study the Amazon rainforest under global climate change
Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.
Brief life of Harvard CIA agent who helped install the shah of Iran
Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000
by Gwen Kinkead
Daniel Lieberman on the Evolution of the Human Head
How the shape of our skulls evolved, and what that reveals about us
Jack Rakove reviews Pauline's Maier's "Ratification," on the U.S. Constitution
The great experiment in constitution-making
by Jack Rakove
A video game for anger management and emotional control
At Children's Hospital Boston, a video game offers emotionally explosive youths methods of self-control.
Charles Lieber's nanoscale transistors can enter cells without harming them
Chemist Charles Lieber and his colleagues have developed a nanoscale transistor so small it can enter, probe, and communicate with cells without harming them.
Amartya Sen proposes a measure of poverty that looks beyond income
A multidimensional poverty index, based on the ideas of Amartya Sen, reveals a different map of the world's poor.
Peter Marsden named dean for social sciences
The sociologist oversees a large Arts and Sciences division.
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.
Warren Brown: Stars escaping the Milky Way help map matter in our galaxy
Stars escaping the Milky Way help Warren Brown and other astronomers map the distribution of matter in our galaxy.