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From rugby pitch to lab bench (external link)
Tiahna Padilla in the lab

From rugby pitch to lab bench 

Tiahna Padilla ’26 has never been afraid of a challenge. While working on her senior thesis, the two worlds she inhabited at Harvard converged through the development of a mobile artificial limb that gives unique insight into the capabilities of athletes’ muscles.

Mechanical engineering with global impact (external link)
Tolu Ademola S.B. ’26

Mechanical engineering with global impact 

After a year at the Altoona campus of Penn State University, Tolu Ademola wanted a change. He wanted to go somewhere that felt like a true university campus. And while he knew he wanted to study engineering, he wanted a school that would encourage him to take humanities as well.

Childhood passion becomes bioengineering success (external link)
Harvard SEAS student Jiani Johnson

Childhood passion becomes bioengineering success 

Find Jiani Johnson’s fifth-grade yearbook, and you’ll find a surprising response to the question of what she wanted to be when she grows up: a bioengineer. She liked tinkering and building things, and she always wanted to help people, making bioengineering the ideal interdisciplinary collaboration.

‘Silicon Valley has seen a ghost’
Greg Kestin and Nate Soares discuss AI

‘Silicon Valley has seen a ghost’

To a packed audience, author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” talks real stakes of “superhuman” AI threats.

Assignment: Walk that robot across campus
A yellow Boston Dynamics Spot robot is seen in a crosswalk on the Harvard University campus.

Assignment: Walk that robot across campus

Three robots walked into the Science Center, their human handlers trailing several feet behind. Within seconds, a crowd circled the cute one, a jaunty silver contraption.

For policymakers, standing behind the curtain comes with risks
A close-up view of a group of solar panels

For policymakers, standing behind the curtain comes with risks

More than $198 billion in green investments were enacted under former U.S. President Joe Biden. But who reaped the political rewards from a set of policies that advanced renewable energy projects and green jobs across all 50 states?