Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
Alumni and faculty letters urge Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom.
by Max J. Krupnick
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Quality of Care
Lisa Iezzoni explores the unmet needs of patients with disabilities.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin
News in Brief
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
by Erin O'Donnell
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Greening Global Finance
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Dangers of Mirror Life
Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.
by Ann Thomas
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking
Founder of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab on a mindset held across the bipartisan divide
by Olivia Farrar