Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike
The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
How to Adapt to Climate Change
Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
“A Grinding War”
A former ambassador to Ukraine offers her perspective on the conflict
To the Rescue
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
by James Engell
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico