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Alumni Named Kavli Prize Laureates

Astrophysicists David Charbonneau, PhD '01 and Sara Seager, PhD '99, and neuroscientist Doris Ying Tsao, PhD '02, will receive a share of the $3M in prizes awarded to eight scientists by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Tackling Society’s Challenges

Three students from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will receive grants from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy to support research in the social sciences, a recognition of the excellence and importance of their work.

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A Molecular Dive into How Cells Sense Nutrients

Krystle Kalafut's PhD research on an important protein signaling pathway may shed light on maladies like cancer and metabolic disease—and perhaps aging as well.

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How Flowers Choose a Mate

"Let a thousand flowers bloom," goes the old saying. But how? Grace Burgin, a Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student in organismic and evolutionary biology, studies the way that flowering plants selectively choose the pollen of mates.

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'Barbarians' or Big Thinkers?

The Mongols are often represented as "barbarians" and conquerors. Less well-known is their support for scholars who advanced the study of astronomy, logic, natural philosophy, and other mathematical sciences.

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Old Tales, New Stories

Why do novelists seem eager to revisit familiar narratives or plots and rewrite pre-existing works, as they so often were in the 20th century? And why do they like to change or revise them?

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Evaluating Nutrition Policies to Reduce Inequities

Graduating student Matt Lee's research suggests that simply passing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax isn’t enough to dissuade people from buying unhealthy drinks.

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