150th Anniversary

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Architects of War

How the built environment, augmented by Hollywood stagecraft, has been used to turn city streets and urban neighborhoods into battle zones.

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The Art of Social Change

Becca Voelcker discusses how visual art can contribute to societal change, how environmental justice has shaped her work, and meeting her best friend at GSAS.

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Streamlining the Search for Black Holes

In Floor Broekgaarden's 2023 Harvard Horizons project “Gravitational Wave Paleontology,” the GSAS student merges astrophysics and big data in her quest to provide new insights into the death—and life—of stars.

Podcast

Colloquy Podcast: The Debt Ceiling—and Beyond—with Laurence Kotlikoff

Economist Laurence Kotlikoff, PhD '77, on the possibility of a US default, the national debt, and ways the nation—and individuals—can mitigate the risks of growing old and getting sick.

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Visionary

As a pathbreaking scientist, Ruth Hubbard changed the way scientists understood how humans see. As a feminist social critic, she changed the way scholars saw how science was done.

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An Ear for Innovation

Nicole Black talks about developing new materials at GSAS for the 3D printing of eardrum repair grafts and more.