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 Divinity's Ahmed wins Grawemeyer Award
Harvard Divinity School scholar recognized for book on Muslim women and the veil
Helen Vendler on admitting and nurturing creative undergraduates
Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
Harvard news: Grad School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, rugby, and more
Harvard news: Graduate School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, University Professor Eric Maskin, and more
Harvard professor finds new Christian gospel fragment refers to Jesus's wife
A papyrus fragment interpreted by Hollis professor Karen L. King quotes Jesus speaking of "my wife."
Short profile of David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
Xiao-Li Meng is the new dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The statistics professor succeeds Allan Brandt.
Carmen M. Reinhart named professor of international financial system
The coauthor of the bestseller This Time is Different arrived July 1.
An undergraduate journalist gains experience working at a newspaper in Chile.
A young journalist gains experience in Chile.
by Andrew Chow
Ofer Bar-Yosef finds evidence of 20,000-year-old pottery in China
Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.