GSAS News

The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) recently held two talks as part of our annual April Speaker Series: “The Translator as Reader and Writer”; and “Moving from the Dissertation to the Book.” [...] While these talks might seem to bear little similarity, a common theme emerged: the transformation of one form of text into another.

Graduating student and Harvard Horizons Scholar Juhee Kang charts the path of psychological tests from scientific novelty to the bulwark of “scientific management” and meritocracy.

2024 Harvard Horizons Scholar Mauro Lazarovich shines a light on the experience of the stateless—and the writers and artists who brought those “erased” by governments and bureaucracies back into view through their creative work.
 

The amount of data in the world continues to expand rapidly. Graduating PhD student Dylan Renaud uses light to develop technologies that make data handling faster and more sustainable.

The discoveries that PhD student Megan Michel and her colleagues make about diseases of the past through their analysis of ancient DNA—from the Black Death to tooth decay—may well shape humanity’s ability to deal with the pandemics of the future.

Mental health professionals increasingly recommended meditation to treat anxiety and depression and help manage stress. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD '76, explains how this age-old practice changes the brain—and how his research was enabled by a collaboration with the Dalai Lama.