Faculty

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

Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.

On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement. 

by Schuyler Velasco

Making Voters Care About Climate Change

A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.

by Jonathan Shaw

Bringing the Stars to Light

Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Alternatives to Policing

A Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Baking Sourdough Bread is a Survival Instinct

A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research

by Jacob Sweet

Allston Research Campus Takes Form

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.

by Jonathan Shaw

Clues to the persistence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.

by Veronique Greenwood

Using DNA for data storage

Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.

by Steve Nadis

Harvard Portrait: Roxanne Guenette

Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions

by Jonathan Shaw

Jeannie Suk Gersen of Harvard Law School, profiled by Lydialyle Gibson

Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant

Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist

by Reed Gochberg