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
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
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.