Sara Schechner, PhD '88, shares her love of scientific material culture as the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard.Read More

Why aren't there T-Rex-sized creatures roaming the streets of New York and Tokyo?Read More

Maddy McFarland, a PhD student in Biological Sciences in Public Health, studies a parasite that is so good at hiding in our bodies that it can float in our cells, undetected, for decades at a time.Read More

How Silvia Cañas-Duarte uses systems biology to explain bacterial behavior.Read More

In their quest to build a tool that uses NV centers — atomic-scale impurities in diamonds — to sense the magnetic fields in everything from firing neurons to condensed-matter systems, the pair of PhD candidates from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have developed a method that can simultaneously detect magnetic fields in various directions.Read More

Krissy Lyon, PhD candidate in neuroscience, studies neurotransmitters and aggression.Read More

Matt Smith’s life is full of acronyms. “My PI is part of OEB. And my grad program is MCO, which is based in MCB,” Smith recites. This proliferation of acronyms results from two factors: his graduate program, Molecules, Cells and Organism (MCO),... Read More

Matthew Hayek, PhD '17 in environmental science and engineering, doesn’t have beef with the cattle industry—he just wants people to understand the environmental impact of the grass-fed burger on the menu at their favorite gastropub.Read More

The Harvard Integrated Life Sciences ( HILS ) hosted a welcome dinner for new graduate students as part of the September 2018 GSAS Welcomes events.Read More

The Origins of Life Graduate Consortium fosters an interdisciplinary approach across disciplines to answer questions related to the origin of life on Earth and the presence of life on other planets. This summer, the Consortium traveled to... Read More