Students

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.

Members of the Class of 2024 reflect on entering senior spring.

Inspired by a friend’s case of mercury poisoning and a recent oil spill in Ohio, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design have developed a 3D-printed device—dubbed “TINA”—that can remove heavy metals from contaminated rivers and lakes by expediting a naturally occurring bacterial process.

Harvard College junior and climate activist Angela Zhong '25 shares a first-person account of her experience attending the COP28 global climate conference in Dubai.

Eleanor Krause, a PhD candidate at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is seeking ways to mitigate the impact the declining coal industry has had in Appalachian communities as the nation shifts toward cleaner energy.