Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Andrew Knoll
A paleontologist on how to understand Earth’s biggest extinction event
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support
George Sarrinikolaou
Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.
Harvard Historians on Trump
Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy
Cousins in the Ancient World
Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA
Solving Dehydration
A simple solution that saved millions
Democracy Endangered
American democracy endangered by minority rule