GSAS News

Harvard Griffin GSAS researcher Yazan Alwadi, PhD ’26, uncovers a systematic link between residential proximity to nuclear plants and cancer incidence in a groundbreaking national study. 

Persistence has driven Dionnet Bhatti Mazo from his single-parent childhood in New York and Atlanta, through becoming the first college graduate in his family, to research and the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience.

Alumna Anusha Nathan’s sights are set on applying her knowledge of computational tools and viral immunology to design vaccines and treatments that improve and save lives, from hepatitis protection to a universal coronavirus vaccine.

Graduating PhD student Vanessa Dippon has investigated a new “hidden control dial”  that has the potential to improve the ability of cancer therapies to target harmful proteins while sparing healthy cells.

For high achievers like Harvard Griffin GSAS students, the idea of being kind toward yourself feels like something unreachable, not something you practice. But that’s exactly backward. And the research on self-compassion is unambiguous on this point.

As they receive their degrees and move on from Harvard, two students and one recent graduate look back at their time as leaders at the Student Center at Harvard Griffin GSAS, the life and career skills they learned, and the legacy of community that they leave behind for those who will follow.