Research
Research content overview
Engineering: Sensing Weakness
Branko Glišić and colleagues are working to close gaps in bridge safety
Faculty Book: Elaine Showalter
Julia Ward Howe’s Feminist Battle Hymn
Q&A: Yu Xie: Knowing China
A new center increases understanding of a rapidly changing nation
Faculty Book: Sean Wilentz: Join the Party
An embrace of tradition as political outsiders are in vogue
Biology: Love Bites
Learning how some mosquitoes came to prefer us above all
Punctuation Patterns — and Cool Art, Too
Elements of Style
Q&A: Wendy Belcher, on an Influential Woman
Biography of Ethiopian saint sheds light on distant era
Q&A: Christina Lazaridi ’92
Words on Film: Thinking like a poet helps a screenwriter find the emotional core of a script
Psychology: Money and Happiness
How the poor improve their lives — and mindset — when they receive financial help
Update: Into the Cosmos
Teaming with NASA to explore the nature of our place in the universe
Astrophysics: View of the Heavens
A new telescope aims to map the universe in stunning and unprecedented detail
Q&A: Ali Valenzuela
A Force to Contend With: Hispanic voters have become a crucial factor in American elections
Q&A: Jhumpa Lahiri on Loving Italian
Writing in Italian offers a meditation on Lahiri’s passion for the language
Creative Writing: Big Sky Country
Montana holds the key to a family’s idiosyncrasies in Boris Fishman ’01’s novel Americans
Q&A: Jessica Metcalf on Herd Immunity
The importance of vaccination, and how its effects can be undermined
International Affairs: The Banality of Evil
Terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, says Jacob Shapiro, are ‘surprisingly mundane’
A Mischief-Maker’s Games in Math and Life
Biography: John Conway