Faculty

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

An image of a doctor writing set against a background of code, representing AI

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

Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. '89

Blavatnik $50 million gift Harvard life sciences boosts biomedical discoveries

Blavatnik Family Foundation’s $50-million gift aims to support development of early-stage Harvard research into human cures

Peng Yi and Douglas Melton, looking at images from their study.

Diabetes treatment discovery by Harvard scientists Douglas Melton and Peng Yi

Hormone found by Harvard's Melton and Yi has the potential to change the way type 2 diabetes is treated

Harvard Medical School to close primate research center

Harvard Medical School announced that it would discontinue the controversial facility

Harvard faculty expertise on terrorism

Faculty expertise on terrorist behavior, from the magazine's archives

Distinguished couple: Professor Louis Agassiz, ever the scientist, ever the creationist, despite the evidence for Darwinian evolution, and Elizabeth (Cary) Agassiz, who emerges impressively from the last chapter of this new biography

Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

by James Hanken

Humans lack a mouse’s high tolerance for bacteria in the bloodstream, a clue that the two species have evolved very different responses to inflammatory disease.

Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases

Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

This posthumous 2007 portrait, by Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, was commissioned by the Harvard Foundation four decades after Monro left Harvard for Miles College.

John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed

Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos

by James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang

Randall Kennedy at the table where he does his research in the reading room of Harvard Law School’s Langdell Library

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race

Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.

by Craig Lambert