GSAS News

Owning a stake in a company is supposed to motivate employees—but sometimes workers need help understanding how their actions reach the bottom line, says research by PhD student Sam Karasik and professors Ethan Rouen and Ashley V. Whillans.

PhD student Zihao Wu uses the James Webb Space Telescope to explore the early universe. He talks about discovering the most distant galaxies yet observed, their surprising concentration, and his path from Sichuan Province, China, to Harvard Griffin GSAS.

Alumnus Jesse Han, PhD '26, has won the Robert J. Trumpler Award, "given each year to a recent recipient of the PhD degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy."

The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) is excited to introduce its cohort of writing specialists for the 2026–2027 academic year. 

Biologist Ania Puszynska, PhD '18, explores how aging affects the way our cells function. At the center of her research are lysosomes and a decades-old question: how do these organelles change with age?

The research, co-led by PhD student Olivia Venezia, could add potentially thousands of new targets for drug discovery.