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 professor Sophia Roosth examines how synthetic biology is remaking life

Historian of science Sophia Roosth on resurrecting extinct species.

Physicists at Harvard's SEAS envision infared as a renewable energy source

Harvard physicists envision capturing energy from Earth’s emissions to outer space.

Harvard-based Sawyer seminar discusses hearing through the body

Through cat telephones and electronic dance music, scholars discuss the physical basis of sound.

At Harvard, anatomy on view, and the return of Pooh

Anatomy on view, and the return of Pooh

What it costs to eat healthy food

With changed policies and food supply systems, healthy foods would cost less.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard scientist creates human brain to rat brain interface

Brain-to-brain interface lets a human control a rat's tail.

by Peter Saalfield

Harvard professor Sarah Richardson presents a history of the sex chromosomes

Sarah Richardson presents a history of the sex chromosomes in science and culture.

by Katherine Xue

Brief life of psychologist Henry A. Murray, by Marshall Getz

Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988

by Marshall J. Getz

Understanding big data leads to insights, efficiencies, and saved lives

Information science promises to change the world.

by Jonathan Shaw

Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the U.S. constitution and democracy

“Out of ratio” weapons are essentially ungovernable.

by Craig Lambert