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
Modeling suicide risk
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Profile of historian Elizabeth Hinton
A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
by Jack El-Hai
The largest flower in the world is a parasite
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias Create Metallic Hydrogen
Metallic hydrogen would be a fundamental breakthrough that could revolutionize energy use, space exploration and more.
Soft robot sleeve hugs heart
A new robotic device could restore the ability to pump blood in patients with heart failure.
This Singer sewing machine has many facets
The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object
Harvard studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
Jennifer Lewis's quest for a 3-D printed kidney
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature