People & Perspectives
Faculty, students, researchers, staff, and alumni who comprise the FAS community
Mahzarin Banaji, Gregory Nagy named ‘Great Immigrants, Great Americans’
Inquiry & Impact
The pursuit of knowledge through research, teaching, and learning, with impact at the FAS and beyond
Harvard scientists detect atmosphere on distant ‘Earth-like’ planet
Campus & Community
Where people, places, and experiences come together to shape life at the FAS
Deep structural deficit in the FAS forces longer-game reset
Highlight
At age 101, alum gifts ‘big, geometric, colorful’ artwork to the FAS
“Well, what does one do now?” David Bakalar ’47 asked, grinning, at a recent reception
A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros
How economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players secure a fairer contract
David Reich on migration, mixed ancestries, and ancient DNA
Drawing on data from over 50,000 genetic samples, Reich’s research shows that the people living in a place today are almost never the direct descendants of the people who lived there before.
The smartphone system that detected seismic activity and saved lives in Venezuela
An earthquake alert system mines data from billions of Android phones, the most common smartphone in the world, and easily the most popular in less wealthy nations.
Leading chemist Jeffrey Long to join FAS facultyHarvard is this special place for being able to think deeply about problems and focus on the fundamental research that’s needed to make breakthroughs. Harvard is unique in that it gives researchers a place where they have everything they need to do science without worrying about a lot of other distractions.Jeffrey R. Long, Ph.D. ’95, Thomas C. Foley Professor of Energy and the Environment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
‘High risk, high reward’ researchers awarded Star-Friedman funding
Grantees cross the sciences, range from work in quantum to ‘smart skins’