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

Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Finding beauty in the complexities of applied science

The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.

by Drew Pendergrass

The new engineers: snapshots of synthetic biologists at work

For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.

by Jonathan Shaw

Systems biology helps develop a promising diagnostic

A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health

by Erin O’Donnell

David Deming on tuition-free public college underwritten by existing funds

David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.

by Cherone Duggan

Demographic distortions will require eldercare solutions

Can technology coupled with cultural understanding improve the health and wellness of the elderly?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies

A new center aims to bring cutting-edge medicines “from laboratory to approved therapy.” 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard president enables more research into University's slavery ties

The president announces a $5-million initiative.

by John S. Rosenberg

Why we eat what we do

“Resetting the Table,” a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum, examines American food traditions. 

by Jacob Sweet

Can the Catholic Church Help Explain Western Psychology?

A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture

by Drew Pendergrass