Faculty

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

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

Hansjörg Wyss boosts biologically inspired engineering

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.

by Jonathan Shaw

Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile

Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.

by Lydialyle Gibson

David Damrosch promotes world literature

David Damrosch’s literary global reach

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Ann Forsyth reviews “Saving America’s Cities” by Lizabeth Cohen

In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today

by Ann Forsyth

From the Archives: Animal Research

Every year, scientists use millions of animals—mostly mice and rats—in experiments. The practice provokes passionate debates over the morality and efficacy of such research—and how to make it more humane.

Harvard Scientists Develop Mechanically Active Skin Dressing

Researchers in the lab of Professor David Mooney have developed a wound-dressing design that works like embryonic skin to heal injuries rapidly.

by Nina Pasquini

The Movement for Open Syllabi

“It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Testing Tool for Curricular Exploration

Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.

by Nina Pasquini

B vitamin content of rice declines with rising CO2

A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Market-Model University

Humanities in the age of money