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Tag: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Kenneth C. Griffin makes gift of $300 million to FAS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences named in honor of alum’s four decades of philanthropy, support for expanding opportunity, advancing excellence.
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How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.
Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.
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Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.
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Real scenes from an online graduation day
Capturing the moments of celebration as Harvard recognizes the Class of 2021.
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Four in a million
In a virtual ceremony on May 26, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) awarded the Centennial Medal to four distinguished alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.
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Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.
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Sally Falk Moore dies at 97
Sally Falk Moore, a legal and political anthropologist and Harvard Law School legend, dies at 97.
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The rhythmatist
Graduate Rajna Swaminathan has spent the better part of her life exploring, improvising, and bringing together different worlds — in music and in life.
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A personal revelation put Nelson LaMarche on the right path
This self-described “germophobe” shifts from medicine to key research investigating obesity, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.
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Cross-university fundraiser started to help India fight COVID-19
Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who helped quickly mobilize a cross-university fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 to help India battle COVID-19.
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CAPTURE-ing movement in freely behaving animals
Harvard researchers develop a new motion-tracking system that delivers an unprecedented look at how animals move and behave naturally.
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Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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From fins to limbs and water to land
Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.
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A science club for girls
With Science Club for Girls, Harvard students and alumnae inspire young female scientists.
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Mystery of the missing molecules
When scientists moved from manipulating atoms to messing with molecules, molecules started to disappear from view. Professor Kang-Kuen Ni has figured out why.
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‘I was in Harvard but not of it’
The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.
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When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
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Filling gaps in our understanding of how cities began to rise
Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before the rise of the world’s first cities
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Studying COVID-19 in real time
How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.
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Bringing (virtual) normalcy to the community
A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.
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At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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A faithful keeper of time
Harvard’s on-call horologist Richard Ketchen keeps busy round the clock.
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Jeté into an ionic bond
Ph.D. student Frederick Moss brings together the incongruous worlds of science and art.
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Giving teachers a DNA refresher
Mansi Srivastava’s lab worked with middle school teachers in an education workshop on DNA and evolution.
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The RoboBee flies solo
Several decades in the making, the Harvard Microbiotics Lab’s RoboBee made its first solo flight.
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Gut microbes eat our medication
Study published in Science shows that gut microbes can chew up medications, with serious side effects.
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What we eat and why we eat it
Harvard Ph.D. students explore the culture and science of food in the latest episodes of the Veritalk podcast. The talks cover veganism, gut health, food and diaspora, and childhood obesity.
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Flying right
Mary Salcedo, who successfully defended her thesis on insect wings, talks about her love of bugs and mentoring and her strategy for a successful doctoral program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Ready for takeoff
Air Force major and new parent Bradley DeWees completed his doctorate at Harvard’s Kennedy School in just three years.
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Day of the golden jackal
The surprising success story of the golden jackal in Europe holds lessons about nature’s resilience and about how nature might respond to the evolutionary pressure exerted by humans as we change the natural landscape. The Gazette spoke with doctoral student Nathan Ranc for insight.
