Ryan is a PhD candidate in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology working in the Harvard University Herbaria. He is a botanist who works at the intersection of biodiversity and human history, studying the ecology, evolution, and classification of introduced...
Alex Cai is a second-year PhD student in Computer Science making AI tools more accessible in underrepresented languages. His middle name, Dazhen, translates literally to "big truth". He seeks to embolden students from all backgrounds to excel in Harvard's...
Jenna Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, where she studies how the brain enables our experiences of remembering the past and imagining the future. She is passionate about teaching and has taught undergraduate statistics and...
Riley Sutherland (she/her) is a History Ph.D. candidate specializing in U.S. history, disability, gender, and public history. A committed teacher and public historian, she has served as a teaching fellow for large surveys and research seminars and has...
Alex Braslavsky is a seventh year PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has worked as a Media & Design Fellow in the Learning Lab, teaching students how to make podcasts and video essays, and she was a Harvard Horizons...
Kaylin Chong is a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology working in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She studies the evolution of ticks and their mouthparts.
Sophia is a 4th year PhD student in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology studying the evolution of bacteria and their mobile genetic elements. While working on her PhD, she has discovered that she loves learning how to teach and teaching students...
Clare Yijia Xie is a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard SEAS, where she develops electrochemical systems to decarbonize chemical manufacturing. She is passionate about science communication, interdisciplinary...
Ruth Tweedy is a PhD candidate whose research spans the Earth & Planetary Sciences and Human Evolutionary Biology departments. For her PhD, Ruth uses organic chemistry to reconstruct how climate and ecological change shaped human and ape evolution in...