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.
How U.S. companies stole American jobs
Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.
by Oset Babür
Why Trump Won the Republican Primary?
Why people vote for celebrities—even when they say they don’t want to.
Harvard Portrait: Sarah Lewis
An art historian on race and photography
Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness
Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.
Studying Zika
Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
Fake social media posts aim to distract
Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.
Epigenetic inheritance explained by in-utero exposures
Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
Do workplace environments contribute to poor health for employees?
by Oset Babür
The Discovery of a Lost Harvard Museum
Recreating the Philosophy Chamber
Linguists’ search for the nature of speech, sign, and universal grammar
How linguists use sign languages to understand universal grammar