Faculty

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

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

How news outlets have the power to change conversation

Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.

by Oset Babür

The building blocks of how babies reason

Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Sexual imprinting and speciation in deer mice

Mate choice is often controlled by genetics, but sometimes culture plays a role.

by Sophia Nguyen

Tom Nichols, "Death of Expertise" author, is profiled

Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist

Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011

by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Researchers Find Earliest Known Human Fossil Outside Africa

Humans began leaving Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Zika Vaccine Development Reveals Differences in Efficacy One Year On

Harvard’s Dan Barouch finds long-term Zika vaccine efficacy varies by delivery method.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China

The hunt for rare plants in China  

by Jonathan Shaw