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

by Jonathan Shaw

Gut Health May Begin in the Mouth

Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”

America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”

by Lincoln Caplan

Brendan Meade studies earthquakes using artificial neural networks

Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.

by Lydialyle Gibson

How climate change can change crop nutrition

How global warming can change crop nutrition

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Cashing Out For Happiness

Research from HBS shows that by buying themselves out of negative experiences, people gain time for happiness-inducing activities like learning a language, or socializing.

by Oset Babür

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard classicist Richard Thomas on Bob Dylan

In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.

by Lydialyle Gibson

At Harvard Medical School, Some Training Happens in the Woods

Stuart Harris guides students in the practice of wilderness medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

by Charles T. Clot...

Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics

The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms

by Jonathan Shaw