Faculty & Research

Reducing methane emissions can buy the world crucial time to avoid catastrophic global warming. A Harvard team is helping provide policymakers with the tools to help policymakers do just that.

In her book, Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis, Harvard neuroscientist Ann-Christine Duhaime explores how our brain’s wiring affects our ability to deal with the complexity of climate change.

Harvard government professors Dustin Tingley and Stephen Ansolabehere collaborated with students to design the course “Politics of the Environment and Climate Change.” The course contends with climate change as a fundamentally political problem, challenging students to navigate obstacles and opportunities for effective policymaking at all levels of government. 

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have developed a biodegradable, antimicrobial food packaging system that extends shelf life and eliminates microbial contamination.

The co-directors of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative discuss a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

Two Harvard faculty members received a stipend to pursue research and writing in the social sciences and humanities.

Economics faculty say a transformational gift from Penny Pritzker AB '81 to help create a new home for the department will foster greater collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity.

Harvard Divinity School professor Matthew Potts MDiv '08, PhD '13, an Episcopal priest, will be the next Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.

Lue PhD '95 was professor of the practice in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, founding faculty director of HarvardX, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation, and faculty director and principal investigator of LabXchange.

Harvard faculty are adapting their fall courses to bring students together in the absence of in-person learning.