Research & Ideas

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


Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

by Bennett McIntosh

Harvard renames art film department

Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film

by John S. Rosenberg

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?

Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.

by Jonathan Shaw

Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women

Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.  

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Commencement

The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019.

by Jonathan Shaw

Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies

Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants

Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.

by John A. Griffin