Faculty & Research


Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet on Who Gets to Keep the Ring

Harvard law professor gets into the details of romantic legal reform.

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Nine Scholars

Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more

by Max J. Krupnick

The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet

Animal companions help their owners live longer, happier lives.

by Nancy Walecki

Making Charitable Giving More Competent

How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective

by Colleen Walsh

Enablers of the Unethical

A Harvard Business School professor turns the stage lights on the supporting cast that facilitates unethical acts

by Daniel Oberhaus

Using Cancer to Kill Cancer

A novel immunotherapy turns cancer against itself.

by Erin O'Donnell

Roger Fu

A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars

by Lydialyle Gibson

Seeking Climate Solutions

Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.

by Jonathan Shaw

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

by Veronique Greenwood

The Modern World Reconceived

Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”

by J. Bradford Delong

Humans on Horseback

New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture

by Jonathan Shaw

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