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Rising temperatures are putting more workers at risk, especially in places where resources are scarce. Tarun Khanna, PhD '93, explains why business leaders need to confront the growing dangers of heat.

FAS Professor Gregory Nagy, PhD '66, was recognized by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation on Independence Day as part of a group of naturalized US citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation.

Kezi Cheng, PhD ‘21, co-founded FLO Materials to produce an alternative plastic polymer that is far easier and cheaper to recycle back into a usable form. Her first target: the plastic used to make frames for eyeglasses.

As the US approached its 250th anniversary, the "dean of historians of the American Revolution" spoke with Harvard Griffin GSAS about the creation of the American republic in one of the last interviews of his life.

“In celebrating Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,” said FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra at a London dedication ceremony, “we celebrate a scientist who was proven right—and a trailblazer whose presence helped make it more possible for others to be seen, heard, and believed.”

Alumnus and Harvard Professor Jason Furman discusses Social Security’s impending cash crunch, consumer pessimism, and why new data about the national debt is “definitely a problem.”