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.
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
A celebration of Matthew Meselson
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
Harvard’s Bok Players get audiences “below the neck”
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
William Sellers boosts history
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
by Bailey Trela
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales