GSAS News

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.

May 2026 PhD graduate Alton Gayton discusses his pioneering work using circular RNA and artificial intelligence to prevent cervical cancer, his upbringing in North Carolina, and his path from there to Harvard, via the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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 Avi Moorthy reflects on his childhood in Toronto, his parents’ journey from India to North America, and his quest to understand how Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender enabled one of the largest mass migrations in American history.

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.