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No Quick End to Russia-Ukraine War

Former national security official Fiona Hill, PhD '98, says that much will depend on whether other European nations step up.

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Fiona Hill, PhD '98, speaking at Harvard Kennedy School
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Writing Lessons from a Home Pasta Maker

In both pasta making and writing, there are advantages to simplicity, investing upfront care and energy, as well as being smart about timing. 

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Grounding PhD Students in Research Ethics

To ensure that the next generation of HMS-trained biomedical researchers behaves responsibly and ethically. Harvard Medical School requires training for Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD students who study there, regardless of whether they are federally funded. Learn more about this distinctive way this instruction is delivered.

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Aging Poetically

PhD student and 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar Alex Braslavsky explores the ways art and poetry can provide unique and powerful insights into how humanity responds to old age––and to all stages of life.  

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Bohumila Grögerová, Krystyna Miłobędzka, and Natsakanova
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A History of Queer Survival

Katherine Horgan’s 2025 Harvard Horizons project, “Living Sappho: Imitation, Imagination, and Revivification in Early Modern England,” examines the many texts that have carried Sappho’s legacy as both poet and queer woman over the centuries.

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A 19th-century painting by Eduard Simonet, of Sappho staring at a fire, holding her lyre and wearing the laurel wreath that marks her status as a poet.
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