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 Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Following Frederick Douglass
During a summer fellowship, student-activists learn from the abolitionist’s legacy.
by Isabel Mehta
Milman Parry
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
“A Moral Obligation”
Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library
Richard Evans Schultes
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
Zelenskyy Addresses American Universities
Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.