Research & Ideas

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

A group of protesters holding signs marches past a gated entrance on a sunny day.

Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks at Cambridge Public Library

Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

by Lydialyle Gibson

art display gallery window view from street of a fish in a bathtub

The Fish in Harvard Square

Artist Isola Murray’s child-size animals

by Olivia Farrar

Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32

Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart

by Lincoln Caplan

Jacob Roberts with other colleagues filming with equipment

Five Questions with "Rent Free" Star Jacob Roberts

The actor and filmmaker on creativity, collaboration, and celebrity canines

by Nina Pasquini

Book cover for "When the Mapou sings" and a photograph of Nadine Pinede

History and Love in Haiti

Alumna Nadine Pinede’s young-adult novel—in verse

by Lydialyle Gibson

Bronze weight shaped as a bust of an empress, featuring intricate details and a hook for hanging.

David Gordon Mitten, Harvard Classicist, Professor, and Curator

An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers

by Primus VI

Werner Sollors seated on a couch with ornate wall designs in the background, wearing glasses and a dark sweater.

Redefining Race as Ethnicity

The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors

by Christoph Irmscher

Barbara Lawrence seated, wearing a textured blouse, in a portrait from the late 1930s.

Harvard’s Pioneering Mammalogist Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

by Jonathan Shaw

Jane Rosenzweig seated on a wooden bench in a grassy outdoor setting, smiling warmly.

Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and Writing

Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and writing

by Lydialyle Gibson

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones and Harvard

Remembering a great musician’s Crimson ties

by Jerold S. Kayden