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Summer 2022

Illustrious, Innovative, and Unique

The 2022 Centennial Medalists include a scholar of American culture, a human rights advocate, a biotech pioneer, and a mathematician and free-speech advocate. 

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Summer 2022

Physicist, Heal Thyself

Nabiha Saklayen, PhD '17, hopes to combine laser physics, optical imaging, machine learning, robotics, and biology to dramatically lower the cost of stem cell therapies—and bring them to scale. 

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Summer 2022

Moving Up

In the years to come, Raj Chetty, PhD '03, hopes to make it possible for some families to change the trajectory of their children’s lives by changing where they live.

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Summer 2022

The Education of an Anti-Colonialist

At GSAS, Ralph Bunche, PhD '34, studied imperialism up close. Then he spent his life trying to dismantle it.

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Summer 2022

A Voice Unlike Any Other

At age 89, Professor Helen Vendler, PhD '60, reflects on the poetic form, its ability to confer a kind of immortality, and why she calls herself a critic rather than a scholar.

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Winter 2022

Deprogramming the Apocalypse

The poet-economist Zoë Hitzig lays bare the ethical choices embedded in algorithms and offers new ways of making decisions in a democratic society.