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Rising temperatures are putting more workers at risk, especially in places where resources are scarce. Tarun Khanna, PhD '93, explains why business leaders need to confront the growing dangers of heat.

Political scientists Stephen Ansolabehere, PhD '89, and Brian F. Schaffner interviewed more than 700,000 Americans about politics over two decades. In both red and blue America, they found the universal experiences relating to life, death, and economics dominated people's concerns.

FAS Professor Gregory Nagy, PhD '66, one of the world’s top authorities on archaic Greek literature and oral traditions, was recognized by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation on Independence Day as part of a group of naturalized US citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation.

Kezi Cheng, PhD ‘21, co-founded FLO Materials to produce an alternative plastic polymer that is far easier and cheaper to recycle back into a usable form. Her first target: the plastic used to make frames for eyeglasses.

As the US approached its 250th anniversary, the "dean of historians of the American Revolution" spoke with Harvard Griffin GSAS about the creation of the American republic in one of the last interviews of his life.

“In celebrating Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,” said FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra at a London dedication ceremony, “we celebrate a scientist who was proven right—and a trailblazer whose presence helped make it more possible for others to be seen, heard, and believed.”