Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
Videos show neurons lighting up as they fire
Videos show neurons lighting up as they fire.
Common chemicals may diminish children’s benefit from vaccines
A Harvard study reports that children exposed to chemicals in food packaging and textile products may have compromised immune systems.
Harvard library restructuring presages smaller workforce
Library leaders tell staff that restructuring will require smaller workforce.
Raj Chetty and colleagues release controversial “value-added” education study
Study finds good teaching leads to lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation.
Harvard Business School survey weaker U.S. economic competitiveness
Harvard Business School issues sober survey on U.S. competitiveness.
Pathbreaking Harvard neonatologist Mary Ellen Avery dies
Her work saved countless premature babies and inspired other women in medicine.
Protein providing health benefits of exercise discovered by Harvard researchers
Harvard researchers discover a protein that provides health benefits similar to exercise, including weight loss and improved blood-sugar control.
Government professor Eric Nelson studies political theory
Profile of a Harvard government professor and political theory scholar
Robert Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.
Arthur Kleinman on the modern Chinese psyche
Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.