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.
The mission of the Radcliffe Institute is to create an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in any of the academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts. Within that broad purpose, it sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
Stipended appointments during which women and men pursue advanced work in a broad range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts.
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The Radcliffe Institute is committed to dialogue about important issues and events and enriches Harvard University's intellectual life through a robust program of lectures,conferences, colloquia, exhibits, and performances.
Research and the Arts
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study exists to foster transformational research across all academic disciplines,professions and the creative arts.
Schlesinger Library
A renowned library on the history of women in the United States.
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