The Biological Laboratories at 16 Divinity Avenue first opened in 1931. In the 95 years of its existence, the storied building has been home to the pioneering evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson, a dozen eventual Nobel laureates, and even a self-described “zombiologist” or two.
The award recognizes outstanding course design and teaching that exemplifies the program’s pedagogical aims.
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When Rosie Rines graduated from Boston’s Roslindale High School in 1964, college didn’t seem like an option. But later this month, at 79 years old, she’ll don a cap and gown and receive her undergraduate degree from Harvard Extension School — with her daughters cheering her on.
A leader at Estée Lauder Companies, she deepened her expertise at Harvard Extension School.
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.
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.
At 68, he earned a master’s in sustainability at Harvard Extension School.