Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
“Sustainable eating,” and healthy recipes you can prepare for the holidays.
Autism Update
In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant breakthrough...
Stem Cells in the New Year
Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of stem-cell research...
Making a Case against the Courts
How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the Constitution as the Founding Fathers would wish?...
Global Gains
Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during...
Teaching and Learning Abroad
Mollie wright ’09 expected to spend her summer in Costa Rica teaching English. She was, after all, a volunteer for WorldTeach, a...
Repressed Memory
Are some experiences so horrific that the human brain seals them away, only to recall them years later? The concept of “repressed...
Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly
Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the...
When Farmers Met Foragers
A question mark has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by communication—in...
Litmus Test for a Law
Until the mid 1980s, victims of domestic abuse who called the police could expect the officers to do little more than tell the abusive spouse to...
Taking Stock of Celebrity
For Anita Elberse, whose latest research investigates the impact of big-name stars on films’ revenues, pop culture and rigorous analysis...