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

Sexual imprinting and speciation in deer mice

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

by Sophia Nguyen

How Americans Turned Against Knowledge

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

A new Green Revolution grows from agricultural technologies

Abundant food and better than ever?

by Jonathan Shaw

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

Samuel Huntington remembered

A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China

The hunt for rare plants in China  

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert