Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Court Blocks International Student Visa Rule
Citing improper procedure, a district judge postponed the government’s efforts to cap student visas at four years.
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Following Frederick Douglass
During a summer fellowship, student-activists learn from the abolitionist’s legacy.
by Isabel Mehta
Milman Parry
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
“A Moral Obligation”
Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library
Richard Evans Schultes
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001