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Quick Stats

Ladder Faculty

  • Tenured: 62/49 FTE
  • Associate: 6/6 FTE
  • Assistant: 15/13 FTE
  • Total: 83/68 FTE
  • Total Participating: Over 100 (from areas including physics, chemistry, business, and biology)

Non-Ladder Faculty

  • Professor of the Practice: 1.75 FTE
  • Sr. Lecturer: .2 FTE
  • Lecturer: 1.75 FTE
  • Total: 11/3.7 FTE

Joint Appointments

  • Astronomy: 1
  • Chemistry and Chemical Biology: 3
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences: 10
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology: 4
  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: 2
  • Physics: 13
  • Kennedy School: 2
  • Medical School: 1
  • Public Health: 1

Diversity

  • Tenured Women: 11%
  • Non-Tenured Women: 25%
  • Tenured Asian/Minority: 20%/0%
  • Non-Tenured Asian/Minority: 25%/13%

Researchers (all areas)

  • Postdoctoral Fellows: 131
  • Research Appointees: 130
  • Research Staff: 35

Select Awards

  • Harvard College Professorships (Lewis, Mazur, Shieber, Seltzer)
  • MacArthur Award (Hau, Mahadevan, Schrag)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship (Mahadevan, Tarokh)
  • King Faisal Award (Capasso)
  • George Ledlie Prize (Brenner, Hau, Mahadevan)
  • Technology Review TR 35 Innovators List (Ham, Tarokh, Wood)
  • Turing Award (Rabin, Valiant)
  • Dan David Prize (Rabin)
  • Nevanlinna Prize (Valiant)
  • Nobel Prize (Bloembergen, Van Vleck (deceased))
  • IMU Nevanlinna Prize (Valiant)

Academies

  • 15 members, including those in administrative positions, of the National Academy of Engineering (with 20 total memberships across the entire University)
  • 9 members of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 21 members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • We also have faculty who are members of the American Philosophical Society; fellows of the Royal Society; and members of the French Academy of Sciences

Impact

Harvard ranked # 1 in Mechanical Engineering; # 1 in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; # 5 in Mathematics; # 3 in AI, Robotics, and Auto Control (Science Watch, most recent data)

Harvard ranked # 7 in Theoretical Computer Science

In terms of citation impact, Harvard ranked second nationally in the category of Engineering and Computer Science in a 2002 analysis by ISI (for 1998-2002 data; most recent)

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New & Recent Hires
  • Ryan Adams, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • David Keith, Professor of Applied Physics and Environmental Engineering

  • Eddie Kohler, Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • Jelani Nelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Fall 2013)

  • Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

New Appointments
  • Roy Gordon, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science
  • Amir Yacoby, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
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