Faculty in the News

Bringing New Meaning to the Term "Scientific Paper"

Harvard News Office

An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides and cell biologist Donald Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study...

October 20, 2009

Wasteland and Wilderness

Harvard News Office

Galison uses a Radcliffe year to ponder 'zones of exclusion'

October 8, 2009

Earth's 'Boring Billion' Years Blamed on Sulfur-Loving Microbes

U.S. News & World Report

Sulfur-loving microbes may have been the party poopers of middle Earth. New research suggests that if such microbes dominated the oceans until half a billion...

September 30, 2009

School of Public Health Professor Advising Feds on H1N1 Policy

Harvard News Office

One thing certain about the flu is uncertainty, according to Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a prominent authority...

September 30, 2009

Why Leave It to Nature? Chemistry professor wants to understand, simplify photosynthesis

Harvard News Office

Amid calls for transformative change in the world’s energy supply, Harvard chemist...

September 30, 2009

McElroy, SEAS Team Say Wind Alone Could Power China

Harvard News Office
(courtesy SEAS Communications)

A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated...

September 10, 2009