Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike
The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.
Casey Cep reviews “These Truths: A History of the United States,” by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Harvard’s Global Health Delivery Intensive
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
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 Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
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.