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The writing here is slyly fun—cheeky, in the appropriate vernacular—but driven by a dark undercurrent, the genuine feeling that the English language of the 1940s had lost its way, slipping into a laxitude that required conscious correction. 

Economists David Autor, PhD '99, and Natasha Sabin, PhD '19, discuss the effects that artificial intelligence is — or isn’t — already having on employment and about how big a transition society is facing.

With support from the President's Building Bridges Fund, two PhD students in the life sciences have embarked on a project to map the range of opinion on genes and genetics among experts at Harvard and to host a civil dialogue on the topic between those with widely divergent views.

Ray Jayawardhana, PhD '00, an accomplished academic leader and renowned astrophysicist who currently serves as provost of Johns Hopkins University, was named the next president of the California Institute of Technology, effective July 1.

University of Cambridge Professor Jack Thorne, PhD '12, has been named one of the Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences. The inaugural cohort of 100 Fellows brings together the UK’s strongest mathematicians across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the country's biggest challenges.

A new neuroscience study led by Kempner Graduate Fellow and Harvard PhD student Colton Casto systematically examines parts of the cerebellum that contribute to language processing in the human brain.