Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
Brief Harvard News Spring 2025
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Making Green Energy Projects Financially Viable
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
Biology's "Mirror Organisms"—And Their Dangers
Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.
by Ann Thomas
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking
The founder of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab on a mindset held across the partisan divide
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
A Harvard briefing on climate change and the U.S. housing crisis
Remembering Harvard Professor and Composer Earl Kim
A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
Nonie K. Lesaux transitions from interim to permanent dean.