Faculty

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

Martin Nowak Placed on Leave a Second Time

Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files

by Jonathan Shaw

Author Michael Pollan speaks at Harvard about his journey as a writer

At Radcliffe, the author talks on nature, food, and altered states of consciousness.

by Laura Levis

Graduate School of Design conference addresses racism in St. Louis

Urban planners and scholars talk racism and exclusion in St. Louis.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The animal law conundrum: when are creatures "things”?

Animal law takes hold at Harvard Law School.

by Cara Feinberg

Susan Dunn reviews Jefferson biography by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf

Thomas Jefferson's “fractal” view of American self-governance

by Susan Dunn

Harvard Portrait: James Mickens

A Harvard computer scientist on how to build a universe

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard historians: ice records shed light on medieval climate

Historians at Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past investigate ice cores.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Economists debate the merits of school choice

Economists rethink the merits of school-choice systems.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard study estimates cancer risk in twins

A new study offers a clearer picture of how genetics and the environment influence cancer risk in families. 

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard MIT climate research

Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research

Harvard's David Parkes on artificial intelligence and economic reasoning

New thinking machines demand a new economic science.

by Lydialyle Gibson