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Ranjay Gulati, PhD ’93, an expert on leadership strategy and organizational growth, has thought a lot about courage. It is not fearlessness, the Harvard Business School professor writes in his new book, How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage, but the ability to make sense of situations in helpful ways and also see ourselves as strong, capable people who can control our destinies. Most of all, he says that courage is a learned behavior. With evidence-based tools—and with practice—leaders of all kinds can put themselves on the path to developing a courageous mindset. Read the Q&A from the latest issue of Harvard Griffin GSAS Colloquy Magazine. 📷: Evgenia Eliseeva #HarvardGriffinGSAS #HarvardPhD #Courage Friendly man wearing thin-rimmed glasses smiles with arms crossed against a wall of green ivy, a relaxed, approachable professional headshot. by @harvardgsas
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"The idea of the lack of Black patriarchy . . . was part of the excuse for why Black men should not have political power, gain the franchise, or have the vote." Now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas Blakeslee’s research traces narratives of the Black father and family back to stereotypes that emerged alongside emancipation after the Civil War. Building on decades of scholarship that chronicled the resilience of the Black family, Blakeslee, PhD ’25, illustrates how fatherhood gave rise to "radical paternity"—acts of resistance and new versions of masculinity in the African American community that emphasized care and service while rejecting domination and violence. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: Dayane de Leon-Blakeslee Smiling man with round glasses and a full beard wearing a dark suit jacket and checkered shirt, posed waist-up in front of a bookshelf filled with books. by @harvardgsas
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Today is World Mental Health Day. 💛 Graduate school is a journey of discovery, challenge, growth, and change, and taking care of your mental health is an important part of that journey. Today, and every day, let’s make space for rest, connection, support, and asking for help when we need it. #WorldMentalHealthDay Students walking down a tree-lined campus path toward an ornate wrought-iron gate, framed by brick buildings and bright yellow autumn foliage. by @harvardgsas
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Five Harvard SEAS computer science graduate students have been named 2027 Siebel Scholars. Congratulations to Prashanth Amireddy, Tian (Sunny) Qin, Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Itai Shapira and Kevin Zhang. Their groundbreaking research explores: • Computational complexity and pseudorandomness • Data-centric AI and public-sector decision-making • AI alignment and human values • Large-scale model training and reinforcement learning • Software security and vulnerability discovery Each scholar will receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies and join a global community of more than 2,000 Siebel Scholars, researchers and entrepreneurs. #Harvard #SEAS #HarvardSEAS #ComputerScience #SiebelScholars by @harvardgsas
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From early-morning studies to deep-sea exploration, meals with the crew and a well-earned wind-down, come along with Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology (OEB), Belkes Stambouli, as she takes us behind the scenes of her recent Ocean Exploration Trust #EVNautilus expedition. At Harvard, Belkes works alongside Dr. Holford in the OEB department. 🌊🐙 #HarvardGriffinGSAS #HarvardPhD #OceanExploration #DITL by @harvardgsas
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Imagine you are an immigration official. You can admit only one of the following two people into the country: a man with an elementary school education who is fleeing violence, or a woman with a graduate degree who is seeking employment. Which one would you choose? To measure public opinion about immigration, political scientists have asked variations of this question to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. A new study in Science Advances, led by Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student Marco Aviña, combines data from a hundred of these studies for a large-scale examination of who makes a "worthy" immigrant in the public eye. Across 36 countries, the paper reports that host citizens generally prefer immigrants with attributes associated with economic contribution, such as those possessing advanced degrees or strong language skills. It also warns of profound political polarization—while conservatives place great weight on cultural similarity, liberals largely do not. More at the link in our bio. 📷 Claudia Romano/Harvard Griffin GSAS #HarvardGriffinGSAS #HarvardPhD Professional portrait of a bald man with a mustache wearing a checked blazer and white T-shirt, standing outdoors in front of a red-brick building and green hedges, smiling softly at the camera. by @harvardgsas
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An estimated 75 million US women experience menopause-related symptoms—from hot flashes and mood changes to sleep disturbances, joint pain, weight gain, and more. Despite menopause’s significant impact on well-being, the National Institutes of Health devotes only a fraction of its already meager 9 percent women’s health research budget to it. Access to qualified care is also limited: rural US counties average fewer than 2 obstetrician-gynecologists per 1,000 residents, and as many as 80 percent of doctors report feeling unprepared to manage menopause effectively. Ava Mainieri, PhD ’20, wants to transform this aspect of women’s health care. As vice president of clinical operations at the fast-growing startup @midihealth, Mainieri is part of the effort to expand access to doctors who understand the challenges of midlife. In doing so, she hopes not only to bridge the gap in knowledge faced by women and their providers but also, ultimately, to help set a new standard of care for those in menopause. Learn more about Ava and her initiative with Midi Health at the link in our bio. #HarvardGriffinGSAS #MidiHealth #Menopause Close-up portrait showing a woman's warm, friendly smile, brown eyes, and dark hair against a plain dark background. by @harvardgsas
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The summer/fall 2026 issue of digital Colloquy is now available! Read about a revolution in women's midlife healthcare, how sociotropic traits and political beliefs shape public perception of immigrants across 36 countries, racial stereotypes through "radical paternity," and much more. Head to gsas.harvard.edu/colloquy to learn more! #HarvardGriffinGSAS #HarvardAlumni #Colloquy #Magazine by @harvardgsas
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From student organizations and cultural groups to events, activities, and opportunities to connect, Engage makes it easy to discover what’s happening across our community. Explore student activities, find groups that interest you, and get involved at Harvard Griffin GSAS! 👉 Check out Engage through the link in our bio. #findyourcenter taken in The Student Center at Harvard Griffin GSAS by @harvardgsas
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University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers, PhD '01, says prices rise and wages catch up—the economic one-step—but our experience of inflation is a psychological two-step: we see price hikes as a kind of unjust theft by a malign external force, but internalize a rise in wages as the deserved result of personal productivity, worth, or value in the workplace. But if inflation was higher in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, why are we so much more angry about it today? 🎙 New episode of the Colloquy podcast available now. #HarvardGriffinGSAS #Podcast #Economy #Inflation by @harvardgsas
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"My research focuses on the changing relationship between humans and animals in and around urban centers in southern Mesopotamia. In the "pre-plastic" world, animals were central to every aspect of life. People didn't just eat sheep, goats, cattle, and fish; they used every part of the animal. They boiled bones for glue, used feathers for decorations, and relied on sinews to tie things together. By not focusing on animals, I think we’ve done a disservice to how we conceptualize the past. In the Western world, we tend to keep animals separate from our "clean" urban centers. But the earliest cities likely had animals marching through the streets. To study this, I use faunal analysis (studying bones) and micromorphology. Micromorphology involves taking chunks of soil, solidifying them with resin, and slicing them into thin sections to look at them under a microscope. This allows us to see "small-scale formation processes." For example, we can identify compressed layers in a road that indicate heavy animal traffic or the presence of dung, which was a vital fuel source. This helps us understand if certain areas of a city were kept free of animals or if they were integrated into the daily flow of life in cities." Melina Seabrook, who earned her PhD in anthropology from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2025, explores the deep history of human-animal relationships in the first urban centers of Mesopotamia and Iran. #HarvardGriffinGSAS #Anthropology Smiling woman crouched inside a narrow archaeological trench, looking back at the camera while squeezed between earthen walls with brushes and excavation tools resting on a ledge. by @harvardgsas
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More men get prostate cancer in the US than any other form of the disease outside of non-melanoma skin cancer. Around 3.5 million men live with prostate cancer, with 330,000 new diagnoses each year, according to the American Cancer Society. Over 36,000 men die from the disease annually. The good news is that prostate cancer is treatable, especially when diagnosed early: the survival rate five years after diagnosis is a whopping 97.7 percent, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bad news is that the rate falls to only 37.9 percent when the disease has spread. Moreover, treatment of the disease through hormone therapy can have deleterious side effects. For prostate cancer that does not respond, there is no effective treatment. Now, help may be on the way. By targeting two particular biological pathways in cancer cells simultaneously, researchers for the first time were able not only to stop the growth of castration-resistant prostate cancer but also to shrink existing tumors. The work, led by biologist Rhea Sahu, PhD ’25, during her doctoral research at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Harvard Medical School, and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. #HarvardGriffinGSAS #HarvardMed #ProstateCancerAwareness Young woman in a white lab coat standing in a busy research laboratory, smiling slightly with long dark hair, shelves of notebooks, boxes and lab equipment visible behind her. by @harvardgsas
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