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.
Harvard music professors create dynamic music theory diagrams
Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.
Historian Ronald Suny Discusses Armenian Genocide at Harvard's Davis Center
On the centenary, historian Ronald G. Suny discusses the causes of the twentieth century’s first genocide.
Harvard's African and African American art gallery opens
Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.
Violence against South Asian women and solutions
Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia
by Rohini Pande
Harvard arts and sciences enrollment, faculty growth
Highlights from Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report
Schlesinger Library's new exhibit showcases the Civil War's personal histories
A Schlesinger Library exhibit reveals the domestic side of the war.
Harvard School of Public Health $350-million endowment
A transformative endowment gift from Gerald L. Chan and family
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
Harvard Center for European Studies scholar writes new book on the Berlin Wall
A scholar at the Center for European Studies traces the unexpected causes of the opening of divided Berlin.
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces
Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach