GSAS News

Professor Andrew Gordon, PhD '81, discusses how Sanae Takaichi became the country’s first female prime minister.

Harvard Griffin GSAS alumna and FAS Professor Namwali Serpell's new book is an appreciation of Morrison's 'difficult' oeuvre—and a defense.

MIT Professor Andrew Lo, PhD ’84, shares his thoughts on how AI is revolutionizing almost every industry, including financial services. 

As AI becomes ever more interwoven in daily life, new research from Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, and Gašper Beguš, PhD '18, is beginning to map out machine learning’ "latent space," the hidden mathematical area that processes information and eventually produces an output.

Recent alumnus S. Furkan Ozturk, PhD ’24, talks about a life-changing summer camp experience, going to college during a coup attempt and ISIS bombings, and searching for the origins of life through the physics of molecular symmetry-breaking. 

New research shows that OpenMetabolics, an open-source, smartphone-based activity monitor developed by a team of Harvard researchers led by PhD student Haedo Chohave, outperforms state-of-the-art smartwatches and fitness trackers at estimating calories burned.