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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Megan White Mukuria and ZanaAfrica Foundation aid Kenyan girls

An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens

by Olivia Campbell

Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard

Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.

by Aidan Langston

Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more

Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others

The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Harvard Giza Project rebuilds a 4,500-year-old Egyptian throne

“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard’s ties to new Fulbright University Vietnam

President Obama’s visit and a developing nation’s new university

by John S. Rosenberg

Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death

Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard

by Olivia Munk

Harvard public health dean, museum director, more

A new dean for public health, a new director for the art museums, and more

Stephen Owen translates the complete works of Chinese poet Du Fu into English

Conant University Professor Stephen Owen spent 10 years translating the poet’s 1,400 surviving poems.

by Jonathan Shaw