Research & Ideas

Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.


Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter-Brown

Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

The Immigrant Experience

Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Lowell House Opera Reimagines an Art Form

Students and professionals collaborate on The Unknowable, an opera-ballet set to premiere at Sanders Theatre this weekend. 

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

by Jonathan Shaw

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson