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.
Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
Drew Faust before Harvard presidency
When The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted Drew Faust in her pre-Harvard days
Harvard exhibition of Neolithic Chinese pottery
An exhibition of prehistoric earthenware deepens understanding of early Chinese cultures and communities.
Megan White Mukuria and ZanaAfrica Foundation aid Kenyan girls
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard
Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.
Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
“Aeneid Book VI,” by Seamus Heaney, reviewed by Richard F. Thomas
A new translation from the Aeneid
The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
The Harvard Giza Project rebuilds a 4,500-year-old Egyptian throne
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum
Harvard’s ties to new Fulbright University Vietnam
President Obama’s visit and a developing nation’s new university