Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine
Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.
An entomologist at work on the Encyclopedia of Life
In the Dominican Republic, a project to write the first chapter in the encyclopedia of life
Who Built the Pyramids?
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions
Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.
Orlando Patterson on Freedom and our sick democracy
America's troubled democracy
How can some species survive without sex?
Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch explore the role of sex in evolutionary biology.
Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts for most of the benefits
Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs
Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres
A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres