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.
A software called RockSalt developed by Harvard researchers boosts app security
RockSalt software improves app security.
Calorie-burning beige fat identified by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers
Cells isolated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may aid anti-obesity efforts.
Carmen M. Reinhart named professor of international financial system
The coauthor of the bestseller This Time is Different arrived July 1.
An undergraduate journalist gains experience working at a newspaper in Chile.
A young journalist gains experience in Chile.
by Andrew Chow
Ofer Bar-Yosef finds evidence of 20,000-year-old pottery in China
Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.
GSAS and SEAS launch new applied science master's degree
The master’s in computational science and engineering launches in 2013.
Lawrence Lessig Q&A
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"Golden Holocaust," by Robert N. Proctor, advocates the abolition of cigarettes
Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
Nations fail due to institutional corruption, not geography, says James Robinson
James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.
Videos of student projects from Jeffrey Schnapp's "Library Test Kitchen" course
Watch videos of Library Test Kitchen student projects, including a WiFi cold spot, a Neo-Carrel sleeping chair, and “library friend” Biblio.