Faculty

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

FAS Restructuring Layoffs Begin

College staff whose jobs will be changed or eliminated were notified this week.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Susan Murphy

Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Undergraduate on power and the denial of scholarship

A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.

by Drew Pendergrass

Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”

Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Toward a Pharmacology of Resolution

An HMS symposium highlights the immune system’s role in ending inflammation.

by Jonathan Shaw

Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It

The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession

The severe economic fallout, in context

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years

Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2

As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.

by Jonathan Shaw

Boston in Motion

An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.

by Drew Pendergrass

Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism

Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.

by Lydialyle Gibson