Amid the rhythms of the back-to-campus bustle — from Zimmer Hall to Barker Hall, Harvard Yard to labs in Allston — new faculty find themselves experiencing the same first-day excitement — and jitters.

As the sun sinks below the horizon, two scientists perch quietly beside a darkening field and wait for flashes of light. They have traveled far outside the city in search of research sites, because ...

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A ...

Rallied by the urgent need to support graduate students and research at Harvard, donors contributed $100 million for endowed Ph.D. fellowships. The match challenge launched in February by the Faculty ...

As a leading researcher on suicide, Matthew K. Nock knows the subject’s grim statistics by heart. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Americans aged 10 to 34, trailing only accidents. It ...

Actress Angela Bassett, singer Mavis Staples, and soccer star Didier Drogba will receive their medals next month in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre. Photos by D’Andre Michael, Elizabeth De La Piedra, ...

Mantle plumes are formations of hot rock in the Earth’s mantle, located up to 1,800 miles deep, that are believed to be the origins of volcanic “hotspots.” These structures have been mapped using the ...

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History, leads a research cluster on climate adaptation in vulnerable African coastal communities. The cross-disciplinary effort, launched three years ...

If you get a sense that someone sees something in you — talent, capacity, or passion — that you haven’t recognized, listen to them carefully and take their suggestions seriously,” President Alan ...

How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back? These are the questions Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, asks in her latest book.

The latest film by Ross McElwee, photographed this summer on campus, will air September 7 on PBS. Carlos Sanchez/Harvard FAS Staff Photographer Ross McElwee has often set out to make a film about one ...

The human brain has long posed unique challenges for researchers. The very organ that most differentiates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is arguably the hardest to study. For one thing, it ...