Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Harvard Horizons honors
TED-type talks on topics ranging from lizards to “micro-activism,” from doctoral candidates likely to define the futures of their fields.
Climate change panel debates solutions, including divestment tactic
A panel of experts debates the best path forward.
Harvard scientists find a way to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel
Harvard scientists find a way to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel.
Locating the ‘Command Neurons That Drive Parental Behavior’
Harvard’s Catherine Dulac on the genetic basis of motherhood and fatherhood
Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program launches SHARIASource digital platform
SHARIASource—“Google-like aspirations” for an online resource on Islamic law
Jelani Nelson, Speeding Algorithms
A theorist explores the limits to shrinking datasets.
Harvard Medical School makes biomedical informatics a full-scale department
Building scale in biomedical informatics
Harvard research into vitamin D’s anti-cancer and health benefits
Two Harvard studies investigate the nutrient’s cancer-fighting properties.
Mara Prentiss of Harvard says, for efficiency, electrify the energy economy
Why the United States may be on the cusp of an energy revolution
Brief life of naturalist Thomas Nuttall, by John Nelson
Brief life of a pioneering naturalist: 1786-1859
by John Nelson