Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Harvard Rallies Help for Haiti with Benefit Concert; Plans Memorial Service
Evidence of Harvard maps in use; updates on the situation on the ground; a benefit concert featuring student performers and a memorial service.
Thoreau's Walden Pond dataset shows that climate change helps invasive species
This is what a new study by a team including Harvard scientists, using a Walden Woods dataset begun by Henry David Thoreau, suggests.
Amy Wagers Discovers a Regenerative Pathway in Blood
Aged blood stem cells in mice act young again when exposed to the circulation of a young mouse.
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Hosts Haiti Map Portal
The Center for Geographic Analysis has created an online portal and sent up-to-date high-resolution wall maps with a delegation traveling to the earthquake-stricken country.
Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
Advancing toward a universal flu vaccine
Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel
Genomic architecture
Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.
Work-life balance hard on women in finance
Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.
Researchers study tai chi benefits
Researchers study the benefits of this mind-body exercise.
Nanoscience in photographs
In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.