Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
FAS Readies for Administrative Transition
Faculty leaders say layoffs will yield $20 million in annual savings.
Samuel Huntington remembered
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The hunt for rare plants in China
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
A New Cast for the Harvard Semitic Museum
A replica of the Dream Stele, part of Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian’s efforts to revitalize the museum
The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.
Gut Health May Begin in the Mouth
Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms
The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
Brendan Meade studies earthquakes using artificial neural networks
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
How climate change can change crop nutrition
How global warming can change crop nutrition