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

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

by Veronique Greenwood

Reengineering Arts and Sciences

Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support

by John S. Rosenberg

George Sarrinikolaou

Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard

by Nina Pasquini

How AI Took Control of a Living Brain

An AI agent in a Harvard lab learned to guide an animal to food—and that gives hope to Parkinson’s patients.

by Jonathan Shaw

Controlling AI Influence Over Consumers

When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

by Jonathan Shaw

Cousins in the Ancient World

Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA

by Jonathan Shaw

Solving Dehydration

A simple solution that saved millions

by Max J. Krupnick

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule