Faculty

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

FAS Restructuring Layoffs Begin

College staff whose jobs will be changed or eliminated were notified this week.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Ukrainian-language collections housed at Harvard

One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Crowdsourcing solutions

Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.

by Michael Fitzgerald

Tax Collection and Civil Society

Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

At Harvard, Ross Douthat, Charmaine Yoest, and others discuss conservatism

In a fractious election season, the Schlesinger Library held a discussion about ideology, trust, and how to expand its reach.

by Sophia Nguyen

Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard

Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

by Erin O’Donnell

Global Health at Home offers innovative techniques to improve U.S. medical care

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan

James Kloppenberg's masterwork on democracy reviewed

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy