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

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

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

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

Malcolm Whitman reveals how an ancient Chinese remedy stops autoimmune disease

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

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

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

Amanda Claybaugh, explicator of the nineteenth-century novel

Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.

Harvard mulls new undergraduate degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering

Harvard develops two new courses of study.

Jacqueline Bhabha reviews David Scheffer's new book on war crimes tribunals

On the evolving system of international criminal justice

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Jonathan Gruber, the man behind the models of the health insurance mandate

Jonathan Gruber crunches the numbers on healthcare reform

New Harvard education doctoral program

New Harvard degree aims to advance research