Faculty

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

FAS Readies for Administrative Transition

Faculty leaders say layoffs will yield $20 million in annual savings.

by Joanna M Weiss

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

Harvard scientist David Keith fosters the study and discussion of geoengineering

David Keith and the question of climate engineering

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard scholar Peter A. Hall links political economy and the euro crisis

The political economy of a continent at cross-purposes

by Peter A. Hall