Featured series 
Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Unlocking the colors of insect vision
Harvard researchers develop in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees.
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Nation & World
Solving racial disparities in policing
Experts say approach must be comprehensive as roots are embedded in culture
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Science & Tech
Microbes are around and within us but there’s much we don’t know about them
Harvard microbial ecologists take an up-close look at mouth bacteria.
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Science & Tech
Tracking an invasive ant species to its native land
Waring Trible’s research took him to Southeast Asia to unravel the origin story of the clonal raider ant, an invasive species found in various parts of the world.
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Health
A safer return to campuses? There’s an app for that
Harvard researchers launched new disease-modeling app for colleges and universities.
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Nation & World
Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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Science & Tech
From fins to limbs and water to land
Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.
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Science & Tech
Evidence of the interconnectedness of global climate
Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.
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Nation & World
So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.
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Campus & Community
The election in the classroom
Data-driven course on election analytics lets students take a deeper dive into elections past and present.
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Campus & Community
Going the extra mile — or 3.2 of them — for Abercrombie
The walk/run raises funds to defray medical expenses for Ben Abercrombie, the Harvard undergrad who was paralyzed in his first football game for the Crimson in September 2017.
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Science & Tech
The Popovich of floral nectar spurs
Researchers discover gene controlling nectar spur development, opening door for insights into evolution.
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Work & Economy
What might COVID cost the U.S.? Try $16 trillion
Harvard economists have estimated the pandemic’s overall cost at a staggering $16 trillion, an economic toll not seen since the Great Depression, and say that figure justifies the expense of efforts to combat it.
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Science & Tech
Digging into the history of the cosmos
The main goal of Cora Dvorkin’s lab is trying to understand the nature of one of the universe’s most important and puzzling features: dark matter.
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Health
Feeling election stress? Stop hitting ‘refresh’
Harvard psychologists offer tips to survive political stress and strain
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Science & Tech
Touch and taste? It’s all in the suckers
Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses.
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Campus & Community
A science club for girls
With Science Club for Girls, Harvard students and alumnae inspire young female scientists.
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Science & Tech
Why do we get so picky about friendship late in life? Ask the chimps
Understanding why older chimps tend to favor small circles of meaningful, established friendships rather than seek new ones may help scientists gain a better picture of what healthy human aging should look like and what triggers this social change.
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Campus & Community
High-Risk, High-Reward grants for nine Harvard researchers
Harvard scientists receive prestigious grant funding through NIH program.
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Science & Tech
Interplanetary storm chasing
Harvard researchers use a 3D model to figure out how a hexagon-shaped mega-storm on Saturn was formed.
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Science & Tech
When it hits 100 degrees in Siberia …
With the threat of extreme heat rising, from California to Siberia, we ask climate scientist Peter Huybers what to expect in the future.
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Campus & Community
FAS launches task force to examine visual culture and signage
FAS launches a task force comprised of faculty, students, and staff to examine FAS’s visual culture.
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Health
What crowdsourced big data may be able to tell us about COVID
How We Feel app lays groundwork to use big data to understand and predict coronavirus infection.
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Science & Tech
Your shoes were made for walking. And that may be the problem
Toe springs in shoes make walking easier but may come at a cost.
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Science & Tech
How the West became WEIRD
In his new book Joe Henrich looks at how the West became psychologically peculiar and prosperous.
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Science & Tech
A cool first for Harvard
Harvard researchers become the first to cool a polyatomic molecule using light.
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Campus & Community
Reinventing courses that are harder to teach remotely
How Harvard faculty are inventing ways to make “hard-to-teach” courses work online.
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Nation & World
Jailing practices appear to fuel coronavirus spread, study says
Quantitative study shows jailing practices in U.S. pose public health risks during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Going the distance for himself and a larger purpose
Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter.
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Campus & Community
Annette Gordon-Reed named University Professor
Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
