Throughout its 150th anniversary year, GSAS is foregrounding the voices of some of its most remarkable alumni and students as they speak about their work, its impact, and their experiences at the School. Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann...

As a young film scholar, Raymond De Luca, PhD ’22 casts his gaze on the old Soviet Union, exploring the ways that filmmakers portrayed animals while building a communist culture—and probing the animal-human divide. In so doing, he offers insight into how humans perceive distinctions between themselves and animals—and how those perceptions can be challenged.

Lee Denson, PhD '67, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy West Point, a combat veteran, and a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He talks about his research on national security, his work on a nuclear arms control treaty that helped end the Cold War, and his PhD advisor’s surprising reaction to his dissertation.

Economist Eric Maskin discusses his work on mechanism design, which won him a share of the Nobel Prize, and the ways it can be applied to social problems like voting reform.

In the November 2022 episode of Colloquy , we discuss the history of our electoral system and the state of our democracy with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar .

A physicist who investigates the ­properties of organic molecules discusses his work--and his surprising career in musical theater.

Throughout its 150th anniversary year, GSAS is foregrounding the voices of some of its most remarkable alumni and students as they speak about their work, its impact, and their experiences at the School. Bridget Terry Long is dean of the Harvard...

Despite the challenges of nearly 400 million guns in the hands of US civilians and 45,000 gun deaths in 2020, GSAS alumnus David Hemenway of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says that citizens can work together to improve gun safety and public health, even in places where gun rights are sacrosanct.

What does the transportation infrastructure of tomorrow look like? Jinyan Zang, PhD ‘21, has an idea. The co-founder and COO of Axle, Zang has built a universal data platform to improve trucking logistics and streamline the supply chain.

FAS Dean Claudine Gay talks about voting in low-income communities, leading the School through the Covid-19 pandemic, and the way her GSAS mentors shaped her intellectual life and career.