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
Samuel Stouffer profile by Jackson Toby
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
by Jackson Toby
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
The positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
How physical appearance influences authority
Cherubic features benefit black male CEOs, but not other groups, underscoring the complexity of social disadvantage.
Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Walker studies “elite controllers” of HIV
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Profile of Daniela Lamas, a critical-care physician
Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
Ulysses S. Grant profile by Elizabeth D. Samet
Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885