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On Commencement Day, 147 students in programs based at Harvard Medical School received PhDs, devoting themselves to biomedical change.

"Back to Black" is the latest in a long line of stories that captivate because they devastate writes PhD candidate Vanessa Braganza.

"Let a thousand flowers bloom," goes the old saying. But how? Grace Burgin, a Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student in organismic and evolutionary biology, studies the way that flowering plants selectively choose the pollen of mates.

Why do novelists seem eager to revisit familiar narratives or plots and rewrite pre-existing works, as they so often were in the 20th century? And why do they like to change or revise them? 

The Mongols are often represented as "barbarians" and conquerors. Less well-known is their support for scholars who advanced the study of astronomy, logic, natural philosophy, and other mathematical sciences.

Joan Argetsinger Steitz was awarded the 2024 Centennial Medal on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.