Faculty

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history

A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history.

by Laura Levis

How the Internet has leveled the playing field in numerous public realms

The Internet has led to cultural and economic changes that tilt power away from large organizations, argues Nicco Mele in a new book.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

A letter from the editor

A letter from the editor on the humanities at Harvard

Helen Vendler's collaboration with Arion Press

The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era

by Nathan Heller

The Origins of Life

Studying how life bloomed on Earth—and might emerge elsewhere

by Courtney Humphries

Harvard study finds regional differences in intergenerational social mobility

Economists ask what factors help children rise out of poverty.

Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science seeks better basis for drug development

The new Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science seeks a better basis for drug development.

by Katherine Xue

Harvard news: the Marathon bombing, earnings update, galvanizing gifts, and more

Harvard news: the Marathon bombing, earnings update, galvanizing gifts, primate-center closure, and more

How We Use Memory in Social Settings

The part of the brain that stores past events also helps to predicts others’ actions.

by Peter Saalfield

Brain Mapping project to rival or surpass human genome project

A project to map the brain is "the biggest challenge of the century."

by Courtney Humphries