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Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.