The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Colloquy Podcast: Can We Learn to Have Courage? Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati, PhD ’93, an expert on leadership strategy and organizational growth, says that bravery is a learned behavior. His new book, How to Be Bold , leverages social science research to put readers on the path to a more courageous mindset. Emily Crowell Wed, 05/20/2026 - 12:41

How to Discover a New Species Arianna Lord, PhD ’25, discusses her journey from New Zealand to Cambridge, the strangeness of velvet worms, and what it's like to discover a new species. Claudia Romano Wed, 05/20/2026 - 09:34

Diving into the Data of Wearable Tech Master's degree data science student and Montreal native Alissia Di Maria analyzes stroke recovery in the Harvard Biodesign Lab. Paul Massari Wed, 05/20/2026 - 08:40

AI Automates Coding for Scientific Research A team including PhD students Qian-Ze Zhu, Ryan Krueger, and Sarah Martinson has produced a new artificial intelligence system that can automatically write scientific software programs that surpass the performance of human-written programs. Paul Massari Wed, 05/20/2026 - 07:57

Fighting Disease with Curiosity PhD candidate Isaac Witte retraces the "incremental advances" that unlocked the CRISPR gene-editing technique. Paul Massari Wed, 05/20/2026 - 07:54

Changing the World, One Vaccine at a Time Alumna Anusha Nathan’s sights are set on applying her knowledge of computational tools and viral immunology to design vaccines and treatments that improve and save lives, from hepatitis protection to a universal coronavirus vaccine. Paul Massari Mon, 05/18/2026 - 14:45

Persistence Brought First-Generation Student to Neuroscience Persistence has driven Dionnet Bhatti Mazo from his single-parent childhood in New York and Atlanta, through becoming the first college graduate in his family, to research and the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience. Paul Massari Mon, 05/18/2026 - 14:40

Making Cancer Therapeutics More Effective and Less Toxic Graduating PhD student Vanessa Dippon has investigated a new “hidden control dial”  that has the potential to improve the ability of cancer therapies to target harmful proteins while sparing healthy cells. Claudia Romano Thu, 05/14/2026 - 11:13

Find Your Center: A Legacy of Community As they receive their degrees and move on from Harvard, two students and one recent graduate look back at their time as leaders at the Student Center at Harvard Griffin GSAS , the life and career skills they learned, and the legacy of community that they leave behind for those who will follow. Emily Crowell Thu, 05/14/2026 - 10:42

Be Well: The Inner Voice You Haven’t Tried Yet For high achievers like Harvard Griffin GSAS students, the idea of being kind toward yourself feels like something unreachable, not something you practice. But that’s exactly backward. And the research on self-compassion is unambiguous on this point. Emily Crowell Wed, 05/13/2026 - 13:06

Student Teams Win Innovation Grand Prizes Student ventures to cure chronic inflammatory disorders and create reviewer-grade feedback for research papers in minutes won two of the five grand prizes handed out by the President’s Innovation Challenge. Paul Massari Tue, 05/12/2026 - 10:52

PhD Student Named Horowitz Fellow Madison Coots was recognized by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for work that leverages AI to improve oversight and audits of police practices at scale. Paul Massari Tue, 05/12/2026 - 10:40

A Big Picture Approach to the Brain Studying Rett syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, November 2025 PhD graduate Devorah Kranz works at the intersection of laboratory and clinic, creating new knowledge that deepens scientists’ understanding of a much more common condition: autism. In so doing, the neuroscientist brings the creativity and holistic thinking she developed growing up in a Hasidic…

What Louisiana v. Callais Means for the Voting Rights Act HKS Professor Maya Sen, PhD '12, and PhD student Jack Deschler, an executive editor of the Harvard Law School Journal on Legislation , say the ruling weakens key protections. Paul Massari Thu, 05/07/2026 - 13:25

Five Named 2026 Hertz Fellows The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced its 2026 cohort of fellows, including five current and incoming Harvard Griffin GSAS students. The award is one of the most prestigious and competitive honors in the applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Paul Massari Wed, 05/06/2026 - 15:25

A New Way To Think About Age and Cancer Genetics A research team led by Harvard Medical School Professor Kamila Naxerova, PhD '13, has developed a statistical method that helps distinguish mutations that cause cancer from those that simply accumulate as we age. Paul Massari Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:29

AI Outperforms Doctors in Emergency Room Tasks Researchers, including PhD student Thomas Buckley, found that OpenAI’s “o1 preview” could conduct real-world triage in emergency rooms, recommend appropriate diagnostic tests, and perform case management tasks at a level that matched or surpassed the ability of even well-trained human doctors. Paul Massari Tue, 05/05/2026 - 10:53

Furman Named Director of Mossavar-Rahmani Center Harvard Kennedy School announced that Jason Furman, PhD '04, has been named director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) by Dean Jeremy Weinstein. Furman will serve alongside co-director John Haigh, who has co-led the center since 2011. Paul Massari Mon, 05/04/2026 - 10:03

What the Arctic Can Teach About Autism PhD student Anne-Michelle Engelstad draws on Inuit philosophy—and her anthropologist mom—to reframe how we understand difference. Paul Massari Fri, 05/01/2026 - 10:08

Studying How Black Media Shaped the Great Migration Graduating student Avi Moorthy reflects on his childhood in Toronto, his parents’ journey from India to North America, and his quest to understand how Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender enabled one of the largest mass migrations in American history. Emily Crowell Thu, 04/30/2026 - 14:24