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.
Harvard Professor Accused of Misleading Government Investigators
Friedman University Professor charged with lying about research ties to China
Demographic distortions will require eldercare solutions
Can technology coupled with cultural understanding improve the health and wellness of the elderly?
Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Can perfect equality exist?
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
David Damrosch promotes world literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
Excerpt from “The Soul of Care” by Arthur Kleinman
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.
A scholar's prescient view of global immigration—in 1996
In industrial nations worldwide, a fin de siècle hysteria builds over immigration.
B vitamin content of rice declines with rising CO2
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
The Market-Model University
Humanities in the age of money
Excerpt from Suzanne Preston Blier, “Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’”
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”