Faculty

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

An image of a doctor writing set against a background of code, representing AI

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

At Home with Harvard: Library Treasures

At Home with Harvard: Library Treasures

Our coverage of Harvard’s libraries, more relevant than ever in an online world

A cartoon illustration showing a situation room with businessmen, farmers, and other food system constituents moving the parts of the food system around on a game board.

Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, led by Emily Broad Leib

A holistic approach to food safety and food law

by Erin O’Donnell

A woman seated on a stool wearing traditional Mongolian garb milks a yak.

Dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe

Ancient dental plaque points to the historical significance of dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe.

by Jonathan Shaw

Portrait photo of Venkatesh Murthy in his laboratory

Harvard Portrait: Venkatesh Murthy

A brief look at what animals’ sense of smell reveals about the brain

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of a professor striving to keep up with a fast-walking elderly Hadza woman

Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman

A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.

by Daniel E. Lieberman

Black journalist Claudia Jones on the phone in the offices of the “West Indian Gazette” in London

Claudia Jones

Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964

by Clarissa Atkinson

Illustration imagining the evolution of computer science at Harvard in a playful way

Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s

The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard

by Harry R. Lewis

View of the Royall House and the slave quarters.

Medford’s Royall House and Slave Quarters

Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of Paul Reville

Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?

A conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

At Home with Harvard: American Democracy text cover

At Home with Harvard: American Democracy

Our coverage of the nation's ailing democracy