Faculty

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

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas

Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.

by Jonathan Shaw

Will Global Democracy Survive?

Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad

by Nancy Walecki

Human and Machine Intelligence

Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute

by Jonathan Shaw

Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language

Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.

by Jonathan Shaw

Re-Wilding Harvard

Bringing native plant species back to campus.

by Kristina DeMichele

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

by Lydialyle Gibson

Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?

Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions

by Nancy Walecki

Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis

The high cost of environmental mandates, historic-preservation rules, and other good intentions

by Jonathan Shaw

Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?

Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others

by Daniel Oberhaus