Students

A group of Harvard Graduate School of Education students serve as fellows at the City Arts and Sciences Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts, overseeing student-led projects and working directly with teachers and administrators at the new public school, which is focused on blending science and arts with project-based, democratic learning.

Three Harvard Medical School students have been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans—a merit-based award that supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate education in the United States—in recognition of their work advancing infectious disease treatment, AI-driven approaches to patient care, and cancer therapeutics.

A first-of-its-kind Rurality Forum, organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Rural League and supported by the President's Building Bridges Fund, aims to address small-town America’s most urgent issues while confronting the urban-rural divide.

Students in the course “Engineering Problem Solving and Design Project” worked with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative to develop a rugged programmable box that helps humanitarian workers with data collection.

For his senior capstone project, mechanical engineer Brice Austin SB ’25 developed a prototype of a liquid window, which uses layers of fluid to more efficiently heat and cool buildings. 

Meet five students who are working with faculty on summer research projects ranging from heat mortality and epigenetics to Legionnaires’ disease and anorexia.

Students from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences developed TempSense, a thermos-shaped storage container designed to ensure drugs are kept at the right temperature as they’re delivered to hospitals, pharmacies, or at-home users.

Across the University, Harvard students, scholars, and faculty turn ideas into ventures that solve problems and create value.

Funded through the President’s Building Bridges Fund, four Harvard student groups launched projects this spring to engage fellow students in meaningful conversations on challenging topics and create frameworks for productive discussions.

A firefighter-paramedic before coming to Harvard Kennedy School, Rupen Dajee MPA '25 started a technology venture that develops tools to help solve some of the challenges facing wildland firefighting, emergency services, and disaster management.