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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2012-2013 fellows

Harvard’s advanced-study center plans 51 resident academics, artists

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

Amanda Claybaugh, explicator of the nineteenth-century novel

Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.

Harvard professors project education research in 2036

Faculty of Arts and Science professors project 400th anniversary

Harvard online showcased at SXSW Interactive

A smorgasbord of Harvard online ventures at South by Southwest Interactive

The Humanities, Digitized

Reconceiving the study of culture

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard curricular and research connections to India

President Faust's first visit to the South Asian nation highlights research and curricular connections old and new.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Panel on Islamophobia and anti-Americanism with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal

A panel addresses cultural misunderstandings and Arab "emancipation."

Arthur Kleinman on the modern Chinese psyche

Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.

John Briscoe discusses water as a platform for development (video)

Four Harvard students from four different disciplines discuss a summer spent in Pakistan investigating water-related issues.