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

The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope

Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries. 

by John S. Rosenberg

HSPH and the World Health Organization team up to challenge Big Tobacco globally

World experts team up for a two-day conference on tobacco control in developing countries.

Support for Science: Harvard’s Faust at AAAS; Broad's Lander wins $3 million

President Faust promotes it; Eric Lander gets a windfall.

The failed effort to enact cap and trade legislation to fight global warming

A distinguished panel considers why Congress failed to pass economy-wide measures to cap carbon emissions.

Harvard programs bring students together with inmates and their neighborhoods

Courses and programs bring Harvard students and scholars face-to-face with inmates and the communities they come from.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard news: Allston development, education dean, social investing

Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more

Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager, pediatric psychiatrists and authors

The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.

Japanese falconry preserved by note-taking

An item in the history of note-taking

by Christopher Reed

Years of life added by exercise is now quantified by research

New study reveals just how many years of life are added by varying levels of exercise.

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard's L. Mahadevan Discovers a New Spring in the Tendrils of a Cucumber

In the plant's tendrils, L. Mahadevan and colleagues discover a new type of spring.

by Erin O’Donnell