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.
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
Crowdsourcing solutions
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Tax Collection and Civil Society
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
Evolution unleashed
David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.
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.