# Research

**Source**: https://espp.fas.harvard.edu/pages/research
**Parent**: https://espp.fas.harvard.edu/pages/academics

[Concord Field Station (CFS)](https://cfs.mcz.harvard.edu/) in Bedford studies animal respiratory physiology, locomotion, and ecological physiology. A CFS van makes daily trips to and from Cambridge.

Forestry and other plant research is conducted at [**Harvard Forest**](http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/), located on 3,000 acres in Petersham, MA (100 km from Cambridge)

The [**Institute of Politics**](http://www.iop.harvard.edu/) at the Harvard Kennedy School has study groups, forums, and information about summer internships and travel grants.

The [Science Center](https://scictr.fas.harvard.edu/) contains many modern laboratories with research quality equipment and apparatus.

The research laboratories of the pertinent science departments contain machine and glass shops, computers, and a wide array of modern and sophisticated instruments (such as optical scanning and electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, Auger spectrometer, x-ray diffractometers, XRF, NMR, and FTIR, as well as equipment for cineradiography, electromyography, and photography).