Elizabeth Gudrais

Matthew Nock sits in his lab’s control room, where researchers record subjects’ behavioral and physiological responses during experiments. For example, they might measure whether people who engage in self-injury show greater emotional distress, in response to frustrating tasks, than people who do not. (Nock’s lab manager and a postdoctoral fellow are seen in the adjoining room through one-way glass.)

Features | January-February 2011

Matthew Nock studies suicide and self-injury

Understanding suicide and self-injury

Right Now | November-December 2010

Our sense of touch influences our actions

Tactile sensations change perceptions, says psychologist Christopher Nocera.

Features | September-October 2010

Harvard scholars and students fight HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.

David Bangsberg, director of the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, is using microfinance to help people with HIV in Mbarara, Uganda, afford food, their children’s school fees, and transportation to clinics for treatment. Bangsberg also heads the Harvard Global Health Scholars program, which is helping to train the next generation of Ugandan scientists. (Read more at harvardmag.com/AIDS-in-Africa.)

Features | September-October 2010

The politics of paying for HIV care

In agreeing to help administer PEPFAR (President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Harvard chose in part to step outside its traditional missions of training and research. But now that funding may be waning.

Nicholas Christakis

Features | May-June 2010

Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak

Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior

Right Now | May-June 2010

Jerry Mitrovica explains the uneven rise in sea levels as glaciers melt

Deciphering sea levels

Right Now | May-June 2010

Jared Diamond and James Robinson apply "natural experiments" to studying histor

Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history

Features | May-June 2010

Lee Fleming studies the influence of social-network structure on innovation

Lee Fleming studies the influence of one's social-network structure on innovation and creativity.

Features | May-June 2010

A language's network structure affects ease of processing and generating words

For ease or difficulty of processing and generating words in a given language, network structure matters.

| May-June 2010

"Networked" Web Extra: video and Web-exclusive sidebars on network science

Slime mold demonstrates the power of networks, fanning out to solve a maze and construct a railway map. Video and Web-exclusive sidebars to accompany the feature article "Networked."

Features | May-June 2010

Research by Harvard scholars on human social relations, online and offline

Making sense of the differences between online and offline friendship

Features | May-June 2010

Evidence of a genetic basis for human social networks

On the genetics of human connectedness