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

by Olivia Farrar

At the University of Ghana, Audrey White studies the history of the slave trade

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

How cooking made us human

A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.

by Jonathan Shaw

"Spaced education" improves learning

With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.

by Craig Lambert

Do maternal and paternal genes compete in children?

Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.

Orchid bees and flight turbulence

Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen

An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78

New media transform college classrooms

Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom

by Craig Lambert

Biographical sketch of Ayn Rand

Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist

by Jennifer Burns

SEAS dean Cherry Murray fosters strategic planning

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences develops a 10-year strategic plan.

Harvard-trained docs practice “age-management” medicine

Two Harvard-trained doctors launch a practice in the emerging field of age-management medicine.

by Craig Lambert