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.

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard National Medalists MacArthurs and more

A National Medal of Technology for SEAS dean, National Humanities Medalists, MacArthur Fellows, and more

Deborah Anker, Harvard Law Professor, on immigration law

A specialist on immigration at Harvard Law School

by Francesca Annic...

Analytics has the power to transform government

Harnessing civic data makes governments more responsive to citizens.

by Stephanie Garlock

Max Bazerman on making organizations act ethically

Max Bazerman wants leaders to take notice of ethical challenges.

by Sophia Nguyen

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

John Muir

A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.

Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.

by Craig Lambert

Magnetic Waves show promise in treatment of bipolar disorder and depression

Researchers at Mclean Hospital develop a magnet that treats depression and bipolar disorder

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard's Douglas Melton creates functional insulin-producing human beta cells

Douglas Melton creates working beta cells from stem cells for eventual use in treatment of Type 1 diabetes.

Research into medical marijuana and cognitive function

Novelist Patricia Cornwell donates $500,000 to McLean program studying the drug's effect on cognitive function.