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.
Harvard’s Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty
A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty
Peabody museum curators discuss archaeology of Harvard Yard project
Archaeologists examine printing type found deep in Harvard Yard.
Harvard MOOC online learning lessons from edX
Harvard and MIT researchers mine masses of data about online learning—and begin to address applications to campus classrooms.
Harvard professors, journalist Nate Cohn discuss data and voting rights
Why good data are essential to understanding the Voting Rights Act
Beckert's “Empire of Cotton” Wins a Bancroft Prize in History
His Empire of Cotton: A Global History puts slavery in an international context.
Harvard addresses climate change and divestment
A campus focus on global warming
HMS Ebola conference emphasizes importance of basic supportive care
At a Harvard Medical School conference, experts discussed lessons from the epidemic.
Harvard researchers have found neurons that that play a role in consciousness
A newly identified group of neurons that play a role in consciousness may have implications for the treatment of schizophrenia.
by Laura Levis
Dietary guidelines change with respect to fats, cholesterol, meat and sugar
Changes to guidelines for fats, cholesterol, meat, and sugar are among the highlights
Harvard music professors create dynamic music theory diagrams
Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.