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“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.”

In his forthcoming book, Aim at Empire, University of California, Berkeley historian Brian DeLay, PhD ’04, argues that the great paradox of the Revolution was that the Patriots were fighting not only for their independence, but also for an empire of their own—and that their surprising ability to access guns and ammunition enabled their success.

Student Shae O. Omonijo challenges extreme AI narratives, fearing the technology could lead to "deskilling" and the atrophy of expert abilities not actively practiced. 

Most of us can remember being completely engrossed in a book when we were children. But while absorption during reading has been studied in adults, there is a conspicuous lack of research on the experience in young people. As a PhD student in human development, learning & teaching at Harvard Griffin GSAS, M.G. Prezioso sought to fill that gap. 

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