Faculty

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

FAS Readies for Administrative Transition

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

by Joanna M Weiss

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Who Built the Pyramids?

Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts for most of the benefits

Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs

by Craig Lambert

Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres

A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres