GSAS News

Health policy PhD student Rachel Swindle says rising costs may push people to seek alternative coverage—or go without insurance altogether—raising concerns about the stability of the marketplace.

Two 2025 Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD graduates and a current PhD student have been named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, joining a select group of 32 emerging research leaders worldwide chosen to accelerate discovery.

In research led by Hannah Tam, PhD '26, scientists unblocked the embryonic regrowth mechanism that shuts down after birth in mice.

Charles H. Bennett, PhD '71, shares the 2026 Turing Award with Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard for their invention of a form of seemingly unbreakable encryption.

By studying muscle function, student Sam Lapp aims to improve others’ physical health—and maybe his own.

Cassondra Hanna is a third-year PhD student in African and African American studies at Harvard Griffin GSAS, studying the history of Black education through a lens that’s often overlooked: the institutions that didn’t survive.