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.
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.
Federal funding at risk
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
A Harvard sociologist studies how veganism went from tasteless to trendy
Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle
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