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Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage
Harvard College senior Raghav Mehrotra, a joint economics and music concentrator, with his drum kit at Holden Chapel.

Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage

At Harvard, drummer Raghav Mehrotra ’26 built knowledge about the music industry — and a sizable social media following.

Lives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone bias
A card showing all 10 skin tones of the Monk Skin Tone scale

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

Ukrainian probes the war of public opinion (external link)
Anastasiia Pereverten, M.A. ’26

Ukrainian probes the war of public opinion 

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Pereverten was more than 5,000 miles away, studying at the University of Wyoming. From that distance, she watched a surge of support from Americans who were far removed from the conflict. “All this, so far away from Ukraine?” said Pereverten. “People were so incredibly vocal and supportive, and wanted to know more. I wanted to understand what shaped that.”