GSAS News

Does work disappear when AI is better than humans at every single job task? Labor economist and Harvard College Dean David Deming, PhD ’10, makes the case that even superintelligent AI won't end human work, thanks to the oldest non-trivial idea in economics.

Three mixed-media paintings by David Bakalar evoke the synapses of the brain while drawing inspiration from Albert Einstein’s landmark mass-energy equivalence formula.

A group led by astronomer Collin Cherubim, PhD '26, has discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet in the temperate “habitable zone” of a distant star system—an intriguing hint of another world that might be hospitable to life.

The Harvard Griffin GSAS alumnus, an expert in porous materials for energy and sustainability, has been named the inaugural Thomas C. Foley Professor of Energy and the Environment and director of the new Harvard Materials Initiative.

FAS Professor Gregory Nagy, PhD '66, was recognized by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation on Independence Day as part of a group of naturalized US citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation.

Kezi Cheng, PhD ‘21, co-founded FLO Materials to produce an alternative plastic polymer that is far easier and cheaper to recycle back into a usable form. Her first target: the plastic used to make frames for eyeglasses.