Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Martin Nowak Placed on Leave a Second Time
Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files
Genetics and the Human Revolution
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
A New Plant to Enhance Memory
Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.
by Oset Babür
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Democracy’s Prospects TK
A Harvard Magazine Roundtable
The argument for geographically targeted economic interventions
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
When Capital Trumps Labor
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies