GSAS News

Conversation moderated by Nien-hê Hsieh, PhD '00, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, searches for more productive national ties. 

World-renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager, PhD '94, is searching for Earth 2.0 and life beyond Earth, even in inhospitable atmospheres like the clouds of Venus.

The fall months are flying by, and winter is just around the corner! As the term and the year draw to a close, take a moment to pause, recharge, and enjoy the season with camaraderie and Harvard Griffin GSAS programming featuring music, snacks, crafting, dancing, and more. 

With the temperature dropping and daylight hours dwindling, it can be easy to feel your motivation do the same. Fortunately, Harvard and the surrounding Cambridge area offer plenty of opportunities to keep moving, enjoy the crisp fresh air, and reset as the light begins to fade earlier each day.

The path from medium-security prison—as well as opioid addiction and family trauma—to a PhD program at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is narrow and has few travelers. Somehow, Johnny Smith found his way to it and through it. 

The allusion is extra, a bonus, an Easter egg without which the sentence should still function, though perhaps as a less interesting version of itself.