Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ for the Return of Low Interest Rates
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses the global forces driving up borrowing costs.
“The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
Harvard renames art film department
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Harvard Commencement
The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019.
The positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.