Tag: Faculty
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Health
How did her sister become so sick so fast?
Joan Brugge’s decadeslong professional fight against cancer began when she tried to make sense of a tragedy

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Nation & World
A new diplomacy for 21st century as economic, political, tech power shifts
New Harvard Kennedy School program to focus on emerging issues, building bench of professionals, scholarship on negotiation, building and managing ties

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Campus & Community
Dustin Tingley named vice provost for advances in learning
He will lead University efforts in pedagogical innovation, digital education, and ways tech can support teaching, lifelong learning, research

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Science & Tech
The why behind sex
Research details answer to a question that’s more complex than it seems

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Health
How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action,’ says John McDonough.
Chan School expert links soaring costs to broader policy shifts in ‘America’s Wrong Turn’

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Health
Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat.
Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed Up’

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Nation & World
How somewhat obscure English duke helped stoke American revolutionary ambitions
Danielle Allen’s new book unearths role of Charles Lennox in supporting ‘radical’ writers, thinkers including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin

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Campus & Community
Don’t mince words, Radcliffe told scholars. It worked.
Participants in intellectual diversity initiative navigated deep disagreements on path to consensus

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Nation & World
How AI may change public policy, how we lead
Kennedy School unveils 10-year strategic plan that features robust new focus on promise, perils of technology

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Health
Almost everyone she knew growing up were laborers. Now she researches inactivity.
Epidemiologist I-Min Lee has published hundreds of papers on exercise and heart health in her time with the Harvard Alumni Health Study and the Women’s Health Study

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Campus & Community
The bear? Nonchalant. Me? More ‘chalant.’
Wooly visitor shakes up already challenging 460-mile summertime solo canoe trip through Yukon wilderness

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Nation & World
World is designed by, for men. It shouldn’t be.
Karen Korellis Reuther explains why it’s a problem (dangerous, even) in products, how more inclusive design serves everyone

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Campus & Community
‘A sea of happy faces’
For students and their families, a day filled with joy, pride, appreciation

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Nation & World
Confronting campus antisemitism
Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say

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Campus & Community
Intellect is not enough
Phi Beta Kappa speakers urge Harvard grads to build character

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Health
Glint of light in therapy for deadly ALS after decades of struggle
New drug shows researchers ‘this illness can be stopped’

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Campus & Community
How immigrant doctors propped up U.S. healthcare, the tale of America’s last prison ship, and other stories
Faculty authors discuss books at Weatherhead Center’s annual International Book Blitz

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Campus & Community
Catalyst Professorship fosters collaboration with the private sector
New part-time role allows leading faculty to pursue industry employment alongside academic work

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Science & Tech
Building useful quantum computers ‘in our direct line of sight’
Researchers say creation of startups suggests game-changing tech may be developing at faster pace than expected

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Health
Psychedelics and the search for truth
Legal scholar sees common interests with law, religion, humanities

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Health
How super-agers keep their brains young
In podcast, experts break down ‘biological contradiction’ of a 65-year-old with the memory of a 25-year-old — and what that means for the rest of us

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Nation & World
Michael Sandel saw it coming
Philosophy helps us solve ‘big questions that matter,’ argues ‘Justice’ professor as he accepts Berggruen Prize

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Campus & Community
What makes a good student
Inner drive, integrity, open-mindedness among qualities highlighted by faculty

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Science & Tech
Does vinyl sound better?
You don’t have to be a purist to say yes. You might just be ‘album oriented.’

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Health
Are your bathroom habits normal?
In new book, doctor addresses everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
