Featured series 
Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research
New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.
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Arts & Culture
Protesting police violence, a playlist
Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.
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Campus & Community
Improving emotional wellness for students
Provost’s Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health details eight recommendations that address a mix of social, academic, and institutional issues.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.
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Science & Tech
When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
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Campus & Community
Three new professors named in math
Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department
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Work & Economy
New economic tracker finds flaws in U.S. recovery plan
Opportunity Insights report suggests targeted social insurance programs may be more effective than U.S. economic recovery strategies.
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Campus & Community
‘Moving in the right direction’
Nearly 2,000 faculty and staff from the FAS Division of Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences got back to their labs this week
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Campus & Community
STEM takes a knee for reflection and reckoning
Harvard Science takes part in #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives
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Nation & World
After the protest … what next?
As protests condemning police brutality against African Americans and systemic racism in the U.S. continue, Harvard faculty share their views on what they’d like to see happen next.
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Nation & World
Racism, coronavirus, and African Americans
Harvard panel discusses long-festering wounds of racial inequities and steps forward.
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Campus & Community
Sibling on a mission
Harvard grad Nathan Grant ’20 helps advocate for people with disabilities, and the people who support them.
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Science & Tech
A new threat to bees
Bee health experts Benjamin de Bivort and James Crall discuss the murder hornet threat and other dangers facing bees.
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Science & Tech
Horizontal helper
Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.
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Science & Tech
Filling gaps in our understanding of how cities began to rise
Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before the rise of the world’s first cities
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Campus & Community
Managing construction’s return to a ‘new normal’
Campus Services and construction officials at Harvard spoke to the Gazette about safely and responsibly resuming construction projects after Boston’s stay-home advisory is lifted.
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Campus & Community
A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
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Health
Tracking the coronavirus through crowdsourcing
How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
Studying COVID-19 in real time
How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.
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Science & Tech
When tectonic plates began to shift
Harvard researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion.
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Campus & Community
Dispatches from socially distancing students and faculty
Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.
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Campus & Community
1,980 accepted to the Class of 2024
Harvard College announced that 1,981 have been accepted to the Class of 2024 in regular-action decisions.
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Science & Tech
From ancient flooding, modern insights
Tamara Pico, a postdoctoral fellow, is using records of flooding in the Bering Strait to make inferences about how the ice sheets that covered North America responded to the warming climate, and how their melting might have contributed to climate changes.
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Science & Tech
Helping to uncover the mechanism controlling brain states
A team of researchers led by two Harvard alumni uncover a switch that controls brain states.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Martin Surbeck
A new member of the faculty of the Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology, Martin Surbeck runs one of the few bonobo research sites in the world.
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Campus & Community
Notes of gratitude, gifts of charity
More than 200 Harvard employees wrote over 4,000 notes of appreciation to colleagues while also making donations to the local shelter.
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Science & Tech
Physics, real and fictional
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
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Campus & Community
Brown-Nagin on her own path and Radcliffe’s
Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin reflects on her first year in the job and looks forward to Radcliffe Engaged, her new initiative to connect with Harvard and the community beyond.
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Science & Tech
A clue to biodiversity?
An analysis of 20 butterfly genomes found evidence that many butterfly species — including distantly related species — show a surprisingly high amount of gene flow between them, Harvard researchers found.
