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Tag: GSAS
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How to move a dragon — fast
Harvard’s Dragon Boat racers find fun, fellowship, and amazing views of Boston.
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Scrutinizing narratives behind nation’s monuments
History of Art and Architecture Professors Sarah Lewis and Joseph Koerner have joined forces for a new class called “Monuments,” which aims to prompt critical conversations about the public works of remembrance.
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With a tip of hat to Stephen Jay Gould
Research done at Harvard unveils only the second “weird wonder” fossilized Opabinia, first popularized by the late evolutionary biologist.
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Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels
Research by new Harvard Ph.D. finds warping of planet’s crust, with far-reaching effects.
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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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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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GSAS students come to campus
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed students to campus, with 50 populating its four residence halls.
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A time of need and a desire to help
COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss
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The giant in our stars
Astronomers at Harvard have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure — the largest ever seen in our galaxy — and dubbed it the “Radcliffe Wave.”
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The archaeology of plaque (yes, plaque)
Christina Warinner says ancient dental plaque offers insights into diets, disease, dairying, and women’s roles of the period.
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Inspired by jumping spiders
Inspired by the depth perception of spiders fixing to pounce on prey from a distance, Harvard researchers design a sensor that could be used in microrobotics, augmented reality, wearable devices.
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Need a book for your beach bag?
Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.
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A product idea with legs
Dakota McCoy, in collaboration with David Haig, led a group of researchers at Harvard studying the black spider and its ultrablack coat with microlenses that could lead to innovations in solar panels and sunglasses glare.
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Fearless advocates, trusted leaders
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented the Centennial Medal to five distinguished alumni — Carroll Bogert, Lael Branard, Roger Ferguson, Jane Lubchenco, and Joseph Nye — who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.
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A good look at bad romance
A conference organized by Harvard graduate students explores the ethics of love and desire after #MeToo.
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Curating a classic ‘Genji’ exhibit at the Met
Harvard’s Melissa McCormick takes “The Tale of the Genji,” one of the world’s first novels, from classroom to gallery.
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Writing about what scares you
Propelled by her viral short story, Harvard alumna Kristen Roupenian publishes her first collection, visits Cambridge.
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GSAS recognizes four with its highest honor
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented 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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The doctor gets a doctorate
Neither Wirun Limsawart’s knowledge as a doctor nor his work as a hospital manager could help him solve Thailand’s national crisis over health care malpractice.
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Centennial Medals awarded by GSAS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards the Centennial Medal to four outstanding alumni whose contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society have made a fundamental and lasting impact.
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A battery inspired by vitamins
Harvard researchers have developed a new class of battery electrolyte material based on vitamin B2 that could enable large-scale, inexpensive electricity storage for renewable power sources.
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GSAS presents Centennial Medals
On May 25, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to four alumni who have made extraordinary contributions to society. The medal, GSAS’s highest honor, was first awarded in 1989 on the 100th anniversary of the School’s founding.
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Toward a path less riddled
Research by doctoral student Anthony Abraham Jack has left a mark on campus life.
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Defender of urban gardens
Doctoral student Aleksandar Shopov has helped save many of Istanbul’s green spaces, but he has even broader hopes.
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Seven graduate students awarded prestigious fellowships
Seven students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were awarded Fulbright Fellowships earlier this week. The scholars’ research will take them across the globe — to Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Crowd of Fulbrights
For the second year in a row, Harvard is the leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, with 34 students ― 22 from the College, 12 in total from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, Graduate School of Design, and Graduate School of Education — receiving the prestigious grants.
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Beyond the lab and library
For the past seven years, January has been a time when students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences can delve into topics they might not otherwise have the chance to explore — everything from the mating habits of insects to writing grant proposals to various imaging techniques.
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A dream, ‘quietly imagined,’ come true
Rakesh Khurana became dean of Harvard College on July 1. On his first official day on the job, he reflected on the College’s power to transform undergraduates, and as a result to change society for the better.
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Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire
GSAS doctoral students create an exhibit to feature personal albums, photographs, postcards, and maps from Harvard’s rich trove of 20th-century propaganda related to Italy’s late participation in the colonial “scramble for Africa.”