Faculty

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

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection

Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?

Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.

by Oset Babür

Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated by Female MDs?

The “glass ceiling” in the operating room

by Oset Babür

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries

Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Language of Emotion

Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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.

by Jonathan Shaw