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PhD student Raphael Kay is leading the team developing Liquafilm, a liquid-based screen that can adhere to windows. He thinks biological organisms could offer a cost-effective solution for heating and cooling.

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. 

Raphael Kay is turning to nature to tackle one of the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges: the colossal amount of energy required to light, heat, and cool modern buildings.

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.