Academics & Research Overview – Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Academics and Research are at the core of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As the largest division of Harvard University and the only one responsible for both undergraduate and graduate education, the FAS is home to an abundance of academic resources and research endeavors.

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FAS Schools, Divisions, and Units

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences comprises three Schools, four academic divisions, 50 museums, and 25+ libraries.

FAS Schools, Academic Divisions, and Units

Department and Program Directory

The FAS’s academic departments and centers support a community unparalleled in its academic excellence across the broadest range of liberal arts and sciences disciplines

Department and Program Directory

Centers and Institutes

FAS academic centers and institutes serve as hubs of interdisciplinary research and innovation.

Centers and Institutes

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Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture is a consortium of the six museums in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Together, these six museums (Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments; Mineralogical and Geological Museum; Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East; Harvard University Herbaria; Museum of Comparative Zoology; and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology) look after more than 28,500,000 objects that represent Earth’s history, life, and cultures.

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

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Harvard Library

Harvard Library collections number over six million digitized items, 21 million volumes, 400 million manuscripts, one million maps, and tens of millions of digital images, and its rare and special collections are amongst the most remarkable in the world.

Harvard Library

Resources

Support for Research

Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising New Research
Bridge funding, seed funding, and enabling subventions for critical equipment

FAS Research Administration Services
Research management and policy, conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment, human subjects

Harvard University Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Grants for enabling research

Harvard Office of Technology Development
Intellectual property, patents, licensing, sponsored research collaborations, startup ventures

Harvard Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Policy and compliance, research funding, education and training, research offices and committees

Office for Scholarly Communication
Spearheads campus-wide initiatives to open, share, and preserve scholarship

Research Policies
Principles and policies that govern research, instruction, and professional activities

Support for Teaching and Technology

Academic Resource Center
Resource for students’ academic and personal development

Academic Technology Group
Multimedia teaching materials, technology and classroom support, visualization and simulation tools

Advising Programs Office
Academic advising for all Harvard College undergraduate students

Canvas
Student dashboard to access class materials, assignments, and schedules

Disability Access Office (DAO)
Accommodations for students with disabilities

Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Faculty and student development, in-class and online pedagogy, and educational research

Education Support Services
Learning spaces, Recording, multimedia technology, and media production services

Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
Innovative teaching and learning grants, teaching and learning consortium, research fellowships, programming around teaching and learning

Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT)
Harvard’s central information technology unit

HarvardX
Online learning objects and tools, integration of online with on-campus teaching and learning

my.harvard
Student portal to search for courses, manage class enrollment, access personal and financial information, and view grades and check-in items

Teaching.fas.harvard.edu
Designed for faculty who are teaching in Harvard College and Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, this site will help you navigate the process of teaching and the wealth of resources available to support you.