GSAS News

Economists David Autor, PhD '99, and Natasha Sabin, PhD '19, discuss the effects that artificial intelligence is — or isn’t — already having on employment and about how big a transition society is facing.

Ray Jayawardhana, PhD '00, an accomplished academic leader and renowned astrophysicist who currently serves as provost of Johns Hopkins University, was named the next president of the California Institute of Technology, effective July 1.

University of Cambridge Professor Jack Thorne, PhD '12, has been named one of the Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences. The inaugural cohort of 100 Fellows brings together the UK’s strongest mathematicians across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the country's biggest challenges.

A new neuroscience study led by Kempner Graduate Fellow and Harvard PhD student Colton Casto systematically examines parts of the cerebellum that contribute to language processing in the human brain.

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.