GSAS News

The late Ardis Butler James and her husband, the late Robert “Bob” James, PhD ’53, amassed an assortment of quilts that eventually became the largest public collection in the world. The couple's love of the craft is a fitting metaphor for their approach to philanthropy. 

Sheldon Weinbaum, PhD '63, is as proud of his lifetime devotion to diversity in STEM as he is of his impressive accomplishments in bioengineering. 

A recent symposium at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences explored how Indigenous communities contribute to creating knowledge in STEM.

Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD candidate Julius Tabin and co-author Katherine Chiasson used advanced machine learning techniques to analyze a vast array of public photographs, offering new insights into the evolutionary pathways of ancestral felids.

Student Claire Lamman wins NAS Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for making "complex topics accessible with creativity and innovation." 

Through a mix of fieldwork and laboratory experimentation, Yale Professor—and newly minted MacArthur Fellow—Martha Muñoz, PhD ’14, is gaining insight into how species’ behavior and physical traits shape the speed, scope, and manner in which evolution occurs.