Faculty

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

FAS Readies for Administrative Transition

Faculty leaders say layoffs will yield $20 million in annual savings.

by Joanna M Weiss

Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies

Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“Austerity—When It Works and When It Doesn’t” reviewed by Idrees Kahloon

Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.

by Idrees Kahloon

Climate Change Portends Diminishing Potential for Wind Power

Diminishing winds may be a harbinger of further climate-change damage to come.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Pushes to Advance Basic and Applied Quantum Physics

Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Medical Record $200 Million Research Gift

Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.

Genetics and the Human Revolution

Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human? 

by Bennett McIntosh

A New Plant to Enhance Memory

Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.

by Oset Babür

A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome

Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.

by John A. Griffin

Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen

Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.

by Jonathan Shaw