GSAS News

May 2026 PhD graduate Alton Gayton discusses his pioneering work using circular RNA and artificial intelligence to prevent cervical cancer, his upbringing in North Carolina, and his path from there to Harvard, via the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Researchers, including PhD student Thomas Buckley, found that OpenAI’s “o1 preview” could conduct real-world triage in emergency rooms, recommend appropriate diagnostic tests, and perform case management tasks at a level that matched or surpassed the ability of even well-trained human doctors.

Harvard Kennedy School announced that Jason Furman, PhD '04, has been named director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) by Dean Jeremy Weinstein. Furman will serve alongside co-director John Haigh, who has co-led the center since 2011.

Does humanitarian aid or national security framing increase support for Ukraine? New research from graduating Harvard Griffin GSAS student Anastasiia Pereverten reveals the strongest predictors of US public opinion. 

A Georgia native homeschooled through high school in a close-knit Southern Baptist community, November graduate Abigail McClain Gomez graduated builds on her PhD research today at Fortune 500 firm IBM, where she is part of the effort to make quantum computing a practical reality. 

Graduating student Avi Moorthy reflects on his childhood in Toronto, his parents’ journey from India to North America, and his quest to understand how Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender enabled one of the largest mass migrations in American history.