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Summer/Fall 2025

Why Pandemics Don't End

Powel Kazanjian, AM ’02, draws on his training in both medicine and the humanities to explore why diseases like syphilis, AIDS, and COVID-19 continue to afflict populations despite major biomedical advances. 

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Summer/Fall 2025

Foundational Leaders

The leaders awarded the 2025 Centennial Medal, Harvard Griffin GSAS's highest alumni honor, established the basis for new knowledge and new fields of study. They include a co-founder of Partners in Health and former president of the World Bank, and a paradigm-shifting evolutionary geneticist whose work informs criteria for evaluating extinction risk. 

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Summer/Fall 2025

Longevity for Humanity

A May 2025 graduate of Harvard Griffin GSAS with a PhD in biological and biomedical sciences, Adebanjo Adedoja’s connection with people is top of mind as he conducts research on one of humanity’s great concerns: how to live a longer, healthier life.

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Summer/Fall 2025

Who Goes to Prison Now?

Drawing on history, public policy, and demographic data, Harvard Sociology Professor Christopher Muller, PhD ’14, explores the shifting dynamics of racial and educational inequality in the US criminal justice system.

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Summer/Fall 2025

Bedtime Story

Elizabeth Klerman, MD/PhD ’90, a professor at Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Department of Neurology, and a faculty affiliate of Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) Division of Sleep Medicine, contends we’re almost certainly not getting enough rest, we probably don’t know how tired we are, and our sleep debt is affecting our work and health.

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Summer 2015

Serendipitous Discovery

For Yifei Shi, academic discovery was far from her mind when she visited the Harvard-Yenching Library for a routine course assignment.