GSAS News

New translation from Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, PhD 24, classics professors at Rice University, digs into the lasting impact of the epic poem that Virgil wanted burned.

The author of your favorite page-turner knew exactly how to make you keep reading: they posed a question and raised the stakes for finding the answer. Present your research questions similarly.

What the Healthy Minds Survey reveals about student well-being 

Even as it hopes to beat rival teams from Yale and MIT at this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta, the larger goal of the Rowing Club at Harvard Griffin GSAS is to make rowing more inclusive and accessible, and to strengthen the University’s graduate student community.

By studying works of “quotidian horror,” PhD student Andrea Garza explores the ways that stories can enable us to look squarely at violence and take action instead of turning away or falling prey to paralysis.  

Leadership transitions are inevitable; peaceful transitions are not. How can societies ensure that power changes hands without violence?