Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
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
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.