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.
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
An undergraduate volunteer looks at Ghana's growing private-school system
An undergraduate captures Ghana's growing private-school system in photographs.
An undergraduate documents the impact of rural banking in Ghana
An undergraduate documents the impact of microfinance and rural banking in Ghana.
An undergraduate finds that her attempts to blend in are lost in translation
An undergraduate journalism intern in France gets lost in translation, but found by new friends.
An undergraduate journalism intern searches Seoul for the best "bingsu" dessert
An undergraduate journalism intern explores Korea's shaved-ice cafés—and her feelings about being a food writer.
by Jane Seo
Chung To quit Wall Street to sponsor schooling for China's AIDS orphans
Chung To quit Wall Street to sponsor schooling for China’s "blood orphans."
Harvard lecturer cancels youth leadership development program in Syria
Recent unrest derailed Marshall Ganz's leadership development project for youth.
Peter Der Manuelian is Harvard's resident Egyptologist
Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.
Stephen Greenblatt traces how Lucretius in "De Rerum Natura" shaped the present
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.