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
Social Sciences
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.
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
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.”
How to tell the story of American racism? Alabama’s Legacy Sites offer ‘powerful’ approach
Students studying the intersections of art and racial justice traveled to Montgomery this semester.
Thesis investigates AI-image bias
With artificial intelligence quickly becoming ingrained in everyday life, psychology and government double-concentrator Gauri Sood ’26 is skeptical about non-human technologies mimicking human experiences without bias.
Jill Lepore on her Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution’
In an interview, the veteran professor sees “a real hunger” for history about the document.
Five Harvard faculty named Harvard College Professors
Awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching announced by FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra at the May Meeting of the Faculty.
Interloper or interlocutor? Debating AI’s impact on social interactions
A recent event, hosted by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, interrogated the technology’s role in human relationships.
How to restore trust in higher ed?
Throughout her Harvard College experience, Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator Ari Kohn ‘26 has explored how the mission of Harvard College, to educate citizen and citizen-leaders through a liberal arts education, is enacted and preserved. The motivation behind her senior thesis, “Citizen or Citizen-Leader: Civic Thought Programs and the Trust Crisis in American Higher Education”, began as a first-year student in the aftermath of the pandemic, when Kohn witnessed difficulties in defining what an undergraduate institution should be.
Re-examining the history of Black fathers
Thousands filled the pews of one of Chicago’s largest Black churches on June 15, 2008, to hear then-Senator Barack Obama deliver a much-anticipated Father’s Day speech. Given the occasion and setting, few would have been surprised if the candidate for president had taken the opportunity to lift up the role of Black men in family life. And at first, he did, briefly praising the work and virtues of the congregation's leader, Bishop Arthur Brazier, and his son, Rev. Byron Brazier. Then Obama pivoted sharply, delivering a withering indictment of absentee fathers in the Black community.