GSAS News

2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar Katherine Horgan explores the legacy of the ancient Greek poet Sappho.

A new study co-authored by Benjamin Sommers, PhD '05 and student Gabriella Aboulafia finds progress toward a more widely insured population. Those gains are threatened by potential changes to Medicaid being considered by federal lawmakers.

Recent graduate Kelsey Hanson Woodruff's love of religious studies led her from ministry in the Presbyterian Church to a PhD program at Harvard Griffin GSAS. 

Harvard Griffin GSAS alumnus and Harvard Professor Gökhan Hotamışlıgil is collaborating with İş Private Equity, a Turkish firm, to finance research while also launching a biotech alongside it that will develop new therapies for metabolic conditions.

Now that spring term has ended, Commencement has concluded, and warmer, longer days are here, students can look forward to these upcoming summer events and opportunities to learn, have fun, or connect with others. 

In celebration of reading, the staff and postdocs at the Fellowships & Writing Center have prepared our own recommendations for summer reading, comprising books we already know we love and books we are excited to open for the first time.