American Religious History and Its Importance in Understanding Global Events

A Window into the Origin of Species

Heather Curtis (ThD, Harvard 2005) joined the Department of Religion in 2007. Her fields include the global history of Christianity, American religious history, and the history of Protestant spirituality and reform movements.
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Erik Dopman, PhD, joined the Department of Biology in 2009. He uses his expertise in evolutionary biology (PhD, Cornell University) and genomics and bioinformatics (postdoctoral research, Harvard University) to explore how species originate.
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Teaching Robots the Complexities of Human Social Interactions

Unraveling the Accumulation of Amyloid-Beta in Alzheimer’s Disease

Matthias Scheutz, PhD, joined the Department of Computer Science in 2010. His main research areas are human–robot interactions and computational models/complex systems. Read more >>

Giuseppina Tesco, MD, PhD, joined the Department of Neuroscience in 2009. Tesco is working on mechanisms of regulating amyloid-beta peptide, which accumulates in the brains of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
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