Research

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Voting Without Your Wallet

Akshay Dixit investigates what makes Indians care —or not—about inequality.

Article

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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Visionary

As a pathbreaking scientist, Ruth Hubbard, PhD ’50, changed the way scientists understood how humans see. As a feminist social critic, she changed the way scholars saw how science was done.

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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Deciphering the Code of Life

Yekaterina “Kate” Shulgina, a graduating PhD student in Harvard’s Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology program, talks about identifying variations in the genetic code cells use to translate mRNA sequences into proteins--and how her advisor helped her become a better scientist.

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The Costs of 'Twice as Good'

PhD student—and Harvard Horizons Scholar—Garry Mitchell finds unexplored ethical questions about the costs borne by children of color who participate in college prep school programs.