Tag: Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

  • Nation & World

    Seeing like anthropologist through camera’s lens

    Ryan Christopher Jones brings an anthropologist’s eye to his work as a freelance journalist. After finishing his liberal arts degree at the Extension School, he’ll be pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard this fall.

    6 minutes
    Ryan Christopher Jones.
  • Nation & World

    Ph.D. with ADHD brings can-do focus to science, life

    Diagnosed with ADHD, Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Kotler uses clinical and genetic studies to reinterpret how humans think.

    7 minutes
    Jennifer Kotler
  • Nation & World

    Understanding the IT band

    Research led by Carolyn Eng delivers insights into how the IT band stores and releases elastic energy to make walking and running more efficient.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How new biosensors turn E. coli into something valuable

    New biosensors developed by Wyss Institute core faculty member George Church enable complex genetic reprogramming of common bacteria like E. coli and could be leveraged for sustainable biomanufacturing, using the metabolic processes of bacterial cells to generate valuable chemicals and fuels.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The value of mentoring

    Harvard Professor Evelynn Hammonds served as a mentor for Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH), a 10-week residential program that exposes undergraduates from across the country to life in a research university. SROH is dedicated to training young scholars from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate training.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Election 2012 at Harvard

    As voters across the United States traipsed to the polls and awaited the election results, so did students, faculty, and staff members at Harvard, the University that helped to educate both major presidential candidates.

    18 minutes