Faculty & Research


Chinese Trade Dragons

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

by Olivia Farrar

Between Harvard and St. Louis

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite

Jobs and Jail

Sandra Susan Smith studies work and incarceration in an unequal, atomized America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic

Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future

by Jonathan Shaw

Making Voters Care About Climate Change

A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.

by Jonathan Shaw

Bringing the Stars to Light

Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Alternatives to Policing

A Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Baking Sourdough Bread Is a Survival Instinct

A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research

by Jacob Sweet

Enlarging the Allston Enterprise Zone

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.

by Jonathan Shaw

Culture in the Cold War

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

The Great Red Enigma

The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.

by Veronique Greenwood