Read the FAS Fall 2021 Planning Update.

Inclusive Teaching Week

The Harvard community is invited to join Inclusive Teaching Week May 10–14

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest division of the University, is dedicated to being
at the forefront of teaching and learning and fostering cutting edge research and discovery.

Science

Earth may have been a water world 3 billion years ago

April 30, 2021

In 1995, Universal Studios released what was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever made: “Waterworld,” a film set in the distant future where the planet Earth was almost completely covered in water and its remaining inhabitants could only dream of mythic dry land.... Read more about Earth may have been a water world 3 billion years ago

Public Shakespeare

In the expository writing course "Why Shakespeare?" first-year students were challenged to adapt their essays for a public audience.

Social Science

The advent of big data in social science

May 5, 2021

The FAS Division of Social Science held its first ever “Dean’s Symposium on Social Science Innovations” earlier this week, focusing on the advent of big data along with its opportunities, contributions, challenges, and limitations.... Read more about The advent of big data in social science

Harvard on Twitter

Harvard From developing new ways to treat chronic diseases to making public transportation more accessible, the winners of the 10th Annual Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge offer solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems t.co/xXtSfqlFew
1 hour 12 min ago.
Harvard Patients that are equally ill from COVID-19 can have drastically different outcomes. Why? t.co/xU3PtX122x
3 hours 37 min ago.
Harvard Poet Jorie Graham interviews Louis Menand about his new book, which examines U.S. culture between World War II and Vietnam t.co/blNqXU8NDm
7 hours 47 min ago.

Arts and Humanities

Chronicling an American age of art, thought, and global engagement

May 4, 2021

In his new book “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” Louis “Luke” Menand, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and Lee Simpkins Professor of Arts and Sciences, follows up his Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Metaphysical Club” with a richly detailed study of the U.S. between World War II and Vietnam.... Read more about Chronicling an American age of art, thought, and global engagement

Origin of the Armageddon causing comet

A new theory from Avi Loeb and Amir Siraj explains the origin of the comet that killed the dinosaurs.

A peek inside the new SEC

Harvard’s much-anticipated Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston is complete. The SEC is home to a portion of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Labs are setting up (some are already operational), furniture has been moved in, and offices are being transitioned.

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