Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Nineteenth Century Letters Between Two Harvard Undergraduates
An antebellum correspondence between two Harvard undergraduates
by Beth Luey
Paper Peepshows at Harvard's Baker Library
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
The Trump Administration's Impact on Higher Education
Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
The Harvard poet and critic on LGBTQ+ literary life and her new book
Remembering Harvard Professor and Composer Earl Kim
A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.
The Future of Tuberculosis
Five Questions with Carole Diane Mitnick
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
A birthday party with song, dance, and speech