Faculty

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

Martin Nowak in a suit attentively listens during a conference, seated among an audience.

Martin Nowak Placed on Leave a Second Time

Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe fellow Trethewey named poet laureate

Natasha Trethewey was a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

This teenager regularly hurries from his job to a local day-care center to spend time with his son in his new role as a father.

Kathryn Edin explains the increase in births out of wedlock

Kathryn Edin of Harvard Kennedy School explains why more and more American children are born out of wedlock.

by Kevin Hartnett

The 2012 honorary-degree recipients. Back row from left: Walter Kohn, John Adams, Provost Alan Garber, President Drew Faust, Fareed Zakaria, Mario Molina, and K. Anthony Appiah. Front row from left: Gillian Beer, John Lewis, and Wendy Kopp

Harvard awards eight honorary degrees at Commencement 2012

Eight awarded honorary degrees at 361st Commencement exercises

Top row, from left: Daniel Aaron and Karl Eikenberry. Bottom row, from left: Nancy Hopkins and Robert Keohane

Harvard graduate school centennial medalists 2012

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers its 2012 Centennial Medals

From left: Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, Ingrid Monson, and Andrew Strominger

Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2012-2013 fellows

Harvard’s advanced-study center plans 51 resident academics, artists

The human urge to create art appears magnificently in the Paleolithic paintings from roughly 30,000 years ago at Chauvet Cave, in southern France. Here, the Panel of the Horses.

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

A large-scale map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas has built the largest protein interaction map to date

A map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

by Courtney Humphries

An extract of the blue evergreen hydrangea suppresses autoimmune reactions.

Malcolm Whitman reveals how an ancient Chinese remedy stops autoimmune disease

Malcolm Whitman reveals how the blue evergreen hydrangea stops autoimmune disease.

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Sociologist Kevin Lewis probes preferences in online dating

How personal preferences drive our choice of mates—as understood through an online dating site.

by Erin O’Donnell

Dean of Harvard Medical School Jeffrey S. Flier

Harvard Medical School problems caring for research primates

Harvard Medical School's primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care

by Carolyn Y. Johnson