Research

Q&A: Tracy K. Smith

A break from the noise

Molecular Biology: Dad, Interrupted

New DNA research exposes cellular effects of childhood trauma

Q&A: Alisha Holland ’07 on Looking the Other Way

Why ‘forbearance’ in Latin America both benefits and hurts the poor

Novel for All Centuries

Faculty Book: David Bellos

New Releases

Computer Science: Just Say — Then Edit — the Word ...

In Short

Computer Science: Reprogramming Bias

As imperfect creators, can humans keep prejudice out of artificial intelligence?

In Short

Electrical Engineering: Unused Territory in the Electromagnetic Spectrum Is Ripe for Harvest

Politics: A Moral Defeat

Winning ‘hearts and minds’ might have unintended consequences

Economics: Do Charter-School Graduates Earn More?

In Short

Economics: A Class in Peril

‘Deaths of despair’ on the rise among Caucasians without a college degree

Slaveholding Statesmen Sought Expansion

Faculty Book: Matthew Karp

In Short

A New Challenge to an Old Fiction

Faculty Book: Maria Dibattista and Deborah Epstein Nord

Geosciences: Space Age

New research dating the moon reveals it, and Earth, to be much older than thought

In Short

Architecture: Restoring Jewish History

A new exhibit re-examines the work of French designer Pierre Chareau

Social Scientists Embrace Genomics

Faculty Book: Dalton Conley

Talking Monkeys: A Matter of the Mind

Visual Arts: Art and Activism

Daniel Heyman’s woodcut portaits give a voice to the oppressed

The Racism of the Progressive Era

Faculty Book: Thomas Leonard