Students

Sambuddha Chattopadhyay ’21 believes small conversations build and grow into a culture of intellectual vitality. 

During the inaugural Harvard Amazon Rainforest Immersion, a 10-day teaching and research intensive organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Office and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, students and academics from Harvard and local institutions explored the region’s intricate ecosystems and threats to its environment, economic security, and public health.

Harvard engineering students partnered with NASA to design a low-cost, low-altitude blimp capable of tracking emissions from factories, traffic, and wildfires and transmitting the data in real time.

Three rising seniors share their summer plans, all with an eye toward their futures.

For his dissertation, Thomas Lee AB ’19, PhD ’24 examined how historical microseisms—faint earth tremors recorded when storm waves crash onshore—might help predict future hurricanes.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to help devise design strategies along the Santa Catarina watershed to increase water security and to reduce flood risk. 

As co-presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Lab, Kayla Springer ’26 and Clyve Lawrence ’27 are working to advance sustainability at Harvard and in Boston.

First-year fall is always full of challenges, but through the heightened fear and isolation surrounding the pandemic, I was grateful for my Peer Advising Fellow, or PAF, as a source of support

A year ago, as I crafted my senior thesis proposal, it was never a question of if I would write one. The only question was what it would look like. Would I write a critical thesis analyzing a canonical piece of writing, or would I write a creative thesis to tell my own story?

Harvard undergrad Shira Hoffer '25 launches hotline and nonprofit to foster civil dialogue around the globe.