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
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
Air quality’s critical impact on U.S. mortality rates
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
by Oset Babür
A celebration of Matthew Meselson
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Risk-Taking Lizards
How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
Behavioral “nudges” boost student performance
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Dipayan Ghosh on how Russia hacked its way into our politics
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
by Oset Babür
Harvard researchers discuss Southern politics’ roots in slavery
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.