Faculty & Research


Chinese Trade Dragons

How Will China’s Rapid Growth in the Clean Technology Industry Reshape U.S.-China Policy?

by Olivia Farrar

Will Global Democracy Survive?

Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad

by Nancy Walecki

Human and Machine Intelligence

Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute

by Jonathan Shaw

Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language

Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.

by Jonathan Shaw

Re-Wilding Harvard

Bringing native plant species back to campus.

by Kristina DeMichele

Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?

Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions

by Nancy Walecki

Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis

The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions

by Jonathan Shaw

Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?

Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others

by Daniel Oberhaus

Underwriting Sustainability Studies

A $200-million gift for the Salata Institute

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

The Causes of Long COVID

Trying to understand infections’ persistent effects—and to develop cures

by Jonathan Shaw

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

by Lydialyle Gibson