People & Perspectives
Faculty, students, researchers, staff, and alumni who comprise the FAS community
8 awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals in joyful ceremony
Inquiry & Impact
The pursuit of knowledge through research, teaching, and learning, with impact at the FAS and beyond
Evidence of board games building bedrock social skills
Campus & Community
Where people, places, and experiences come together to shape life at the FAS
Hoekstra, Petrofsky outline new FAS administrative model at first faculty meeting of academic year
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Inside the Bio Labs as the building turns 95
12 Nobels, two rhinos, and continued legacy of scientific discovery
Caribbean art takes campus spotlight
“We have never before shown an entire exhibition from the French and Creole-speaking Caribbean,” said Cécile Fromont, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, faculty director of the Hutchins Center’s Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art.
At Harvard Forest, doomed eastern hemlocks found to further future generations
Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the eastern hemlocks — as they had done in forcce elsewhere. Since then, Harvard Forest scientists have begun to study how to manage the demise of its so-called foundation species.
The optimal diet? Kitchen experiment leads scientist to answer
For most of his life, Daniel Lieberman has dedicated his mind to studying the evolution of the human body. In his latest project, he also devoted his body — specifically his digestive tract — to science.
Rediscovering Thoreau the scientistThis is Thoreau obsessively surveying the bottom of Walden Pond — obsessively! He’s doing a graphical version of calculus to do iterative lines to find the bottom. And you know why? Because he was so sick and tired of misinformation.Robert M. Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut
‘This is really not a time to find your chatbot BFFs’
The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, nursing homes, workplaces, even bedrooms.