Harvard University
Student Research
Harvard University gathers students from across the country and around the globe to collaborate with world-class professors on impactful scholarship.
Health and medicine
Harvard Medical School requires ethics training for all its Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, to ensure that the next generation of biomedical researchers is behaving responsibly and ethically.
Improving fertility
Yash Rana’s research found that the quality of eggs suffers when mitochondria are out of place. His findings could inform therapies to improve fertility in humans.
- Harvard Chan School
Developing an AI model to help surgeons make more accurate diagnoses
Developing an AI model to help surgeons make more accurate diagnoses- Harvard Law School
Understanding how hospital bond ratings might affect health care
- Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Investigating the connections between the oral microbiome and colorectal cancer
- Wyss Institute
Delivering gene therapies to treat inherited disorders
- Harvard College
Studying individual differences observed in autistic children
- Harvard Medical School
Researching fish antibodies for therapeutic applications in humans
Science and technology
Every summer at Harvard School of Engineering, selected students get to focus on an in-depth research project and explore multidisciplinary research topics while honing their science communication skills.
Where science research is born
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Design & Project Fair allows students to combine hard science and playful innovation.
Sensing indoor air pollution
Haritosh Patel is developing an indoor air quality sensor which will monitor for harmful pollutants and enable people to take actionable steps to mitigate the problem.
Bridging electricity and chemistry
In the lab, Virginia Canestraight focuses on making industrial processes more efficient, especially when it comes to decarbonizing chemical manufacturing.
Detecting forever chemicals
Simon D’Oelsnitz aims to use biosensors to power a portable diagnostic tool that can measure PFAS—otherwise known as forever chemicals—within minutes, rather than weeks, at a fraction of the cost.
Understanding how plants release carbon
Nikhil Chari, a Ph.D. candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology, studies small carbon compounds released by plant roots into the soil, and their role in the global carbon cycle.
Innovating on medical storage
Twelve engineering students helped create a thermos-shaped storage container capable of maintaining, monitoring, and displaying its interior temperature to ensure drugs are kept at the right temperature as they’re delivered.
Decarbonizing shipping routes
In China, Sara Dahiya conducted environmental-economic tradeoff analyses to evaluate the scope and feasibility of implementing renewable energy infrastructure in maritime transportation.
Engineering climate resiliency
In Louisiana, Umar Azad helped research climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure, including improved water distribution systems, and solar microgrid installations.
Harvard Horizon Scholars
Harvard Horizons is a yearly showcase that celebrates the ideas and innovations of Ph.D. students at Harvard and helps them gain essential professional skills.
Economics and policy
At Harvard Kennedy School, student-led conferences provide a platform for students to present their ideas, expertise, and research to engaged audiences.
Understanding how power is transfered
Daniel Lowery examines how monarchs in Europe and Asia transferred power across the centuries, extrapolating important implications for present-day societies hoping to avoid conflict and authoritarian rule.
Dasom Shin spent the summer exploring the intersection between cultural heritage preservation and sustainable development in Santiago, Chile.
Abby Elder, Tanishk Goyal, and Lynn Monzer explored how the ability to share, trade, and distribute indigenous seeds not only increases agricultural and economic security—thus reducing factors that lead to conflict—but also increases social ties within and across communities.
Three Graduate School of Design students interned at a Southern California offices of landscape architecture and urban design firm to learn how to leverage design for fire prevention and remediation.
Johnny Smith studies the impact that higher education can have on formerly incarcerated people like him, so that others can hold onto their freedom, and lead full, productive lives.
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