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.
Working with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture was formative for integrative biology concentrator Lauren Bartel
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.
Diagnosis transformed Mary Cipperman ’26 into a hyperproductive student researcher with diverse interests in physics, medicine, and AI
After three years as a Waymo software engineer, Luke Fiorante wanted a change. He’d been coding ever since he was a computer science major at Brown University, but the Vancouver native knew he could do more. Also interested in design and the arts, he decided to search for master’s programs focused on design and engineering.
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.
Why take a walk or a run when you can just take a pill? These are burning questions in the new era of revolutionary weight loss drugs.
A researcher focused on developing therapeutic vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Alton Gayton will graduate from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in May 2026 with a Ph.D. in virology. He discusses his pioneering work using circular RNA and artificial intelligence to treat and prevent cervical cancer, his upbringing in North Carolina, and his path from there to Harvard, via the University of North Carolina.
Fei Chen and Ryan Flynn were honored for promising investigations into cellular mechanisms of the disease.
Danika Rodrigues has been researching cancer therapies since she was a biomedical engineering undergraduate and master’s student at the University of Michigan. But it was working at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & Johnson, that convinced her that not only was cancer research interesting — it was what she wanted for her career.
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.