Announcing the 2017 Horizons Scholars

GSAS is pleased to announce the 2017 Horizons Scholars, eight PhD students whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines. These students have been selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the high aspirations and the extraordinary achievements of Harvard University’s PhD programs. They form the fifth class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that will offer opportunities for long-lasting community, mentorship, and professional and academic growth. The scholars will receive in-depth mentoring on the art of effective presentation, preparing them for a campus-wide symposium on April 12, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.

The 2017 Horizons Scholars

and their project titles

Image	Robin Gong, Statistics Rethinking Low-Resolution Statistical Inference with Random Sets
Image	John Harpham, Government The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
Image	Nancy Khalil, Anthropology Without a Profession: The Politics of Being and Becoming an Imam in the US
Image	Shay Neufeld, Medical Sciences To Explore or to Exploit? Investigating How the Brain Decides Whether to Try Something New, or Stick with What It Knows
Image	Evander Price, American Studies The Future Monument
Image	Frederick Reece, Music Ringing False: Music Analysis, Forgery, and the Technologies of Truth
Image	Christalyn Rhodes, Biological Sciences in Public Health Cold Migration: The Role of Viral-Induced Epithelial Cell Migration in Asthmatic Exacerbations
Image   ​	Xiawei Wang, Astronomy Quasar Outflows: Unravelling the Mysteries of the High Energy Universe