GSAS News

The winter break offers a perfect opportunity to step back, reset, and reflect not only on what you’re doing, but on how and why you’re doing it. To reflect on what matters to you. 

For Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, PhD ’13, Pusey Minister at Harvard’s Memorial Church and a professor at Harvard Divinity School, forgiveness is a form of mourning—not denial or erasure, but a way of living with harm without mirroring it. 

As loneliness rises, many people are turning to chatbots for companionship. Research by Julian De Freitas, PhD '21, shows that AI can alleviate loneliness, at least in the short term.

Technology is transforming relationships, says Professor Debora Spar, PhD '90, but algorithms can't replace authentic human connection. She discusses her research on the future of marriage and what these shifts mean for all of us.

Aurélien Dersy is a sixth-year PhD student in physics at Harvard Griffin GSAS whose work straddles high-energy theoretical physics and artificial intelligence. 

Landing on the moon required the collective effort of hundreds of thousands of people. Understanding how humans achieve these kinds of extraordinary feats is at the core of psychology PhD student Yang Xiang’s research on how our minds navigate collaboration.