Each year, the Radcliffe Institute selects forty to sixty Harvard undergraduates to participate in its Research Partnership program. The program pairs students with professional scholars, providing a unique opportunity for undergraduates to work side-by-side with some of the finest scholars, artists, and professionals in the world.

Harvard undergraduate Wangui Muigai ’09 and Radcliffe fellow Martin Summers RI ’08 describe their collaboration—conducting research on how race has shaped mental health doctrines and practices.

Evolution, the fossil record shows, sometimes proceeds in sudden leaps. Susan Lindquist RI '08 examines how millions of years of stasis can end abruptly with multiple changes in forms and functions.

Go behind the scenes at the Schlesinger Library and find out what's in this special collections library, how it was formed, and how the library makes its collections available to researchers all over the world.

Radcliffe's executive dean Louise Richardson is one of a small band of academics who specialize in where terrorists come from, why they get support, and how they decide to escalate their politically motivated violence.

JOANNA AIZENBERG 

Joanna Aizenberg RI '09 puts the design principles she sees in nature—in sponges, rocks, and sea urchins—to human ends.