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.
Harvard Portrait: Venkatesh Murthy
A brief look at what animals’ sense of smell reveals about the brain
Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
Claudia Jones
Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
Medford’s Royall House and Slave Quarters
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?
A conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
At Home with Harvard: American Democracy
Our coverage of the nation's ailing democracy
Bringing Black History to Light
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Historian Alexander Keyssar on why the unpopular institution has prevailed
Risky Lending in Flood Zones
To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.