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Was ‘Aeneid’ Critiquing or Glorifying Empire?

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.

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Creative Writing Tools for Academics

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.

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Find Your Center: Rolling on the River

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.

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Overcoming the "Everyday Horror" of Mexico’s Drug War

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.  

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