The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research has named its 2026 cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Medalists, including actress Angela Bassett, humanitarian and soccer legend Didier Drogba, and five-time Grammy-winning singer Mavis Staples.
Coastal erosion, worsened by climate change, is consuming West African communities on the Gulf of Guinea. A team led by the Salata Institute’s Emmanuel Akyeampong surveyed 450 residents on the mental health impacts of the destruction.
How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back? These are the questions Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, asks in her latest book.
Hutchins Forum convened on “Balance of Power: Redistricting, Courts, and the Right to Vote”
The singer-songwriter, who recently released a concept album threaded with AI skepticism, appeared with two Harvard-affiliated researchers on the Singing for Science podcast.
Task force leadership is “a mandate to follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings.”
Many mornings a week, Andrei Shleifer uses his morning run to connect with students.
Being born a few days on either side of the school-enrollment cutoff date might seem like an arbitrary difference. But new research finds boys born just after the cutoff, who start kindergarten relatively old for their grade, enjoy far more advantages than previously known.
New research by economist Rebecca Diamond found an increase in marriage among single women and an increase in employment rates among unemployed women after they started taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Diamond says the pattern suggests that at least part of the female obesity penalty — the social and financial costs women bear due to their body size — is linked to first impressions.
For more than 20 years, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation has marked Independence Day by recognizing a group of naturalized U.S. citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation.
Approximately one-third of all households in the United States live in rented properties, but it can be hard to say who the landlords are. In a co-authored research paper, economics professor Rebecca Diamond introduces a method for identifying the deed-holders.