In Anthony Horowitz’s novel, The Word is Murder , a novelist (also named Anthony Horowitz) agrees to serve as a ghostwriter for former London police detective Daniel Hawthorne. At one point during his investigation, Hawthorne...

In April, the FWC held its annual speaker series, sponsoring two panels about academic publishing. The first, moderated by postdoctoral fellow Jordan Wilkerson, focused on publishing in STEM journals and featured PLOS editor Debora...

When you are done with your work this semester, I hope that your achievements will be lauded with celebratory music. It is not completely beyond the realm of possibility that, upon your final keystroke, the Harvard University Band...

GSAS students Zubia Hasan and Laura Nicolae as well as incoming student Osareman Okolo have been awarded a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for 30 immigrants and children of immigrants.

Flowers are blooming in the Boston Public Garden, the Boston Marathon is just around the corner, and if our allergies aren’t hassling us on walks to campus, then the rain is. This can only mean that April has arrived, that...

Although Juliana García-Mejía and Karina Mathew study very different fields today at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the two share a preoccupation, reflected in their research, with the prospect of worlds beyond our own. Both are advancing knowledge in ways that could change the way we think about the search for extraterrestrial life. And both are doing work that forces us to reconsider the place of humanity in the stars—and in our own stories.

Picture this: You’re sitting through a conference talk. The speaker is friendly and confident. Their figures are sleek, with plenty of results. Their research methods are elegant. But at the end, you’re still asking...

I’ve been watching a lot of college basketball lately. One of my cousins coaches a highly ranked Division III team, and I love cheering them on from my kitchen table. More specifically, I enjoy watching them cruise to victory:...

I am what they call an “anxious traveler.” Especially on airplanes. Statistical assurances, mechanical-theoretical explanations, the collective buttressing of stolid reason itself is powerless against the full-body panic...

The prose was dull and deliberate, the message blunt but unconvincing. What could this writer have been thinking? If I was particularly harsh in my criticism, then thankfully I risked offending only myself. Though I hardly recognized...