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
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
by Jonathan Shaw
Not-So-Free Parking
New book discusses how free parking spoiled cities for walkers, drivers, and residents
by Max J. Krupnick
Post-COVID Learning Losses
Children face potentially permanent setbacks
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy
Joseph Allen emphasizes that retreating indoors is an incomplete solution.
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Spotting Pollutants from Space
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
by Jonathan Shaw
Kari Nadeau
Multi-allergy immunotherapy pioneer Kari Nadeau returns to Harvard
by Max J. Krupnick
“This Beautiful Machine”
Paola Arlotta’s organoids provide a window into the human brain.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Nepotism’s Impact in the Job Market
How connections in blue-collar work disadvantage women and blacks
by Max J. Krupnick
Engineering Virus-free Cells… and Organs?
Harvard researchers have built bacteria resistant to viral infections.
by Daniel Oberhaus
Mindfulness and Public Health
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
by Max J. Krupnick