GSAS News

As with writing, painters paint for different reasons—sometimes for practice, sometimes to test out ideas, sometimes for a commission, and sometimes to express something vital through their art. 

Public health expert Sara Bleich, PhD ’07, says it’s time to deal with obesity as the urgent crisis that it is and that the disease is largely preventable but to make progress, the country must deal with persistent inequities in the healthcare system—and the structural racism that underlies them.

Specializing in wearable robotics, PhD student Connor McCann focuses on developing assistive devices, particularly a soft wearable robot designed to aid shoulder joint movement.

Éadaoin Harney is a scientist at 23andMe, a biotechnology company that provides direct-to-consumer DNA testing services.

As academics, we generally have lots of control over our own time and how we focus that time.

The social fellows of the Student Center at Harvard Griffin GSAS certainly know how to show folks a good time, but they say their real job is bringing together students dispersed across the School’s nearly sixty different graduate programs.