Lives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone bias
The Monk Skin Tone scale, devised in 2019 by Professor Ellis Monk, helps create more accurate medical diagnostic tools for patients with dark skin
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After failing out and dropping out, Navy vet set to graduate
A few months shy of 30, Richard Glazunov is poised to graduate from Harvard College with a degree in government.
The bottom line on sustainability
A leader at Estée Lauder Companies, she deepened her expertise at Harvard Extension School.
‘I wrote poetry for the first time in my life’
The Mayo Clinic psychiatrist earned a master’s in creative writing and literature at Harvard Extension School.
Laser-focused on applied physics
Arman Amirzhan chose to study materials science as an undergraduate at Imperial College in the United Kingdom thinking he’d learn about cutting edge technology like nanomaterials. Instead, he got ceramics and metallurgy – classical areas of the field, but not his area of interest. He was worried he’d picked the wrong field of study, and because of the U.K. educational system, changing majors would be much harder than in the U.S.
Revelations about organizations and leadership
With 24 years of experience in financial services, Jose R. Quiles arrived at Harvard Extension School expecting to add a credential. Instead the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Master’s Degree Program redrew his career map.
‘It was a deliberate career pivot’
Now she’s pursuing ideas about climate finance and technology developed at Harvard Extension School.
On the path to research, teach, and curate
Working with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture was formative for integrative biology concentrator Lauren Bartel
Lacrosse teammates, friends felt same call to military service
At Harvard, Francisco Cortes and Owen Guest also shared interest in history and commitment to their athletic regimen
Looking for Ireland’s ‘invisible people’
Andrew Bair is set to graduate from Harvard Griffin GSAS in May 2026 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He talks about his research challenging the accepted chronology of Irish settlement in the Middle Ages, how his study of archaeology and computer science at Columbia led him eventually to Harvard Griffin GSAS, and about growing up in a curious family and literally growing out of his dream of being an astronaut.
Shaping the world his granddaughters will inherit
At 68, he earned a master’s in sustainability at Harvard Extension School.