This academic year, we are celebrating 150 years of inquiry, innovation, and impact at GSAS. As we look back over our history, I am amazed by what GSAS alumni have accomplished thanks to their tireless dedication to the creation of new knowledge. Across disciplines, GSAS graduates have pushed the boundaries of what we know, helped tackle intractable problems, made discoveries that have changed how we live, and advanced our understanding of the world and our place within it.
In this issue of Colloquy, you will read about several of your fellow graduates and their pathbreaking achievements. And throughout this sesquicentennial year, we will tell additional stories about our extraordinary community—past, present, and future—including alumni whose GSAS education laid the foundation for incredible impact and the promising students who will go on to accomplish even more. These stories, as well as information about the celebration, our history, and events, can be found at gsas.harvard.edu/150, on GSAS’s YouTube channel, and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages.
You are an integral part of this remarkable community of scholars and innovators, and I invite you to join in the celebration. I hope you will connect with GSAS, whether you attend events in cities around the globe and virtually, visit our Harvard Archives exhibit in spring 2023, engage with students through the Firsthand Advisers career mentoring platform or the Virtual Coffee program, or return to campus for Alumni Days. While we can look back on the singular achievements of the past 150 years, it is the accomplishments of alumni like you that will make GSAS and Harvard’s next 150 years even more extraordinary.
—Emma Dench, Dean of Harvard Griffin GSAS
