Tag: Ph.D.

  • Nation & World

    Unhidden figures

    LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…

    7 minutes
    Vinothan Manoharan and Lanell Williams
  • Nation & World

    Ready for takeoff

    Air Force major and new parent Bradley DeWees completed his doctorate at Harvard’s Kennedy School in just three years.

    5 minutes
    Bradley DeWees in Memorial Church.
  • Nation & World

    Writing about what scares you

    Propelled by her viral short story, Harvard alumna Kristen Roupenian publishes her first collection, visits Cambridge.

    6 minutes
    Kristen Roupenian
  • 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

    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.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Opening academia widely

    In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    High marks for doctoral programs

    A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.

    4 minutes