Faculty

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

Historic building surrounded by trees, with people gathering in a park setting.

FAS Readies for Administrative Transition

Faculty leaders say layoffs will yield $20 million in annual savings.

by Joanna M Weiss

This image, provided by a member of the Boston University delegation upon his return from Haiti, shows the wall map sheets printed at Harvard being used for damage assessment surveys.

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.

At the Center for Geographic Analysis office, the Harvard-MIT Data Center's Eric Alderman examines a map of Port-au-Prince with Jean-Lucien Ligonde, a businessman in the Boston Haitian community, in preparation for sending the map to Haiti to be used in relief work.

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.

Panelists at the tenth-anniversary symposium discuss how their time as Radcliffe Fellows helped them bridge boundaries between genres. From left to right: English professor Leah Price, painter Beverly McIver, filmmaker Jeanne Jordan, composer Tarik O’Regan, filmmaker Anne Makepeace, and lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study tenth anniversary

Harvard’s former sister college celebrates its first decade as an institute for advanced study.

Advancing toward a universal flu vaccine

Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel

by Jonathan Shaw

If it were not for an elegant design, your DNA might be a tangle of crossed lines and knots. Graduate student Erez Lieberman-Aiden was part of a team that discovered how the genome packs information accessibly into a tiny ball of hierarchical folds.

Genomic architecture

Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.

by Courtney Humphries

Work-life balance hard on women in finance

Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Kerr practices outside to “feel the sensations of the sun and wind and the ground beneath my feet.”

Researchers study tai chi benefits

Researchers study the benefits of this mind-body exercise.

by Nell Porter-Brown