GSAS News

A research team led by Harvard Medical School Professor Kamila Naxerova, PhD '13, has developed a statistical method that helps distinguish mutations that cause cancer from those that simply accumulate as we age.

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced its 2026 cohort of fellows, including five current and incoming Harvard Griffin GSAS students. The award is one of the most prestigious and competitive honors in the applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics, providing doctoral students with the financial freedom to pursue innovative research with significant social impact.

Researchers, including PhD student Thomas Buckley, found that OpenAI’s “o1 preview” could conduct real-world triage in emergency rooms, recommend appropriate diagnostic tests, and perform case management tasks at a level that matched or surpassed the ability of even well-trained human doctors.

Harvard Kennedy School announced that Jason Furman, PhD '04, has been named director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) by Dean Jeremy Weinstein. Furman will serve alongside co-director John Haigh, who has co-led the center since 2011.

Graduating student Andrew Bair discusses his research challenging the accepted chronology of Irish settlement in the Middle Ages, and how his study of archaeology and computer science at Columbia led him eventually to Harvard Griffin GSAS.

To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our blood: with effort, with empathy, and with a willingness to be changed by the encounter.