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Dr. Joseph E. Murray, at center facing camera, is seen performing the first successful organ transplant on Dec. 23, 1954, at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray, at center facing camera, is seen performing the first successful organ transplant on Dec. 23, 1954, at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
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Being Well Connected Isn’t Always Good for Your Career

Team that includes Colin Fisher, PhD '10, finds that connections don’t just help people land jobs: They continue to shape performance evaluations long after working relationships with stars have ended—often for the worse.

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Test Tube in a Drop

Navajo PhD student Robinson Tom may have found a way for scientists to more easily and efficiently conduct millions of experiments simultaneously using oil and water droplets instead of test tubes. 

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Robinson Tom is a PhD candidate at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) who studies bioengineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Photo by Erica Green/Harvard University Native American Program
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Forecasting the Next Pandemic

PhD students Dianzhuo (John) Wang and Vaibhav Mohanty are part of a research team combining biophysics with artificial intelligence to identify high-risk viral variants in record time—offering a transformative approach for handling pandemics. 

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Professor Eugene Shakhnovich (from left), Dianzhuo (John) Wang, and Vaibhav Mohanty worked together on the studies.
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How SNAP Cuts Will Impact American Communities

The cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” will have a devastating impact on food-insecure families and the communities in which they live, according to University of Southern California sociologist Leah Gose, PhD ’23.

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How the "Big, Beautiful, Bill" Will Impact Medicaid

National Public Radio's Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna McIntyre, PhD '21, assistant professor of health policy and politics at Harvard, about how the GOP spending bill would impact Medicaid.

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Save Medicare sign at a protest
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