GSAS News

Maria Perez-Matos’s research suggests that aging isn’t determined solely by genes or environment. Subtle molecular differences can influence how long and how well an organism lives. Understanding these differences may guide interventions to keep humans healthier, longer. 

Black members of Congress, like other groups, are often typecast. PhD student Hunter Rendleman explores how much their identities and behaviors reflect their own identities and how much they're shaped by the way people think the legislators should behave.

Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student Icey Lin explores Moon and Melon, a seventeenth-century painting by the Chinese artist Bada Shanren held at the Harvard Art Museums. 

For this blog, we checked with the FWC staff to find out their favorite ways to embrace the cold and beat the winter blues. 

Ellen Winner, PhD '78, senior research associate at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Gifted Children: Myths and Realities, discusses the history and connotations of the “gifted” child or student.

Co-founded by Mira Bernstein, PhD ’99, Cambridge Math Circle is a place where faculty and alumni share puzzles, riddles, and joy with young students from the local community.