News Archive

Former JF John Urschel featured in Washington Post

October 13, 2026

Former Junior Fellow John Urschel (2022 - 23, 2024 - 25), currently an Assistant Professor of mathematics at MIT, was recently profiled by Miriam Waldvogel in The Washington Post . Urschel, who happens to be a former NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens...

Society affiliates describe life as Nobel Laureates

September 27, 2026

Former Junior Fellows Gary Ruvkun (1982 - 85) and Dudley Herschbach (1957 - 59), along with Senior Fellow Amartya Sen, spoke to the Harvard Gazette about how their lives changed after winning the Nobel Prize in their respective fields. Ruvkun was awarded...

Former JF Mohamed El-Brolosy named STAT Wunderkind

October 07, 2026

Former Junior Fellow Mohamed El-Brolosy (2020 - 23) was named a Wunderkind by STAT, an award-winning digital newsroom that reports on the life sciences. Every year, STAT receives hundreds of nominations from across North America and identifies the top...

Read Senior Fellow Maria Tatar's interview in the Harvard Gazette

September 30, 2026

Senior Fellow Maria Tatar, one of the world’s foremost scholars on children’s literature, folklore, and fairy tales, was interviewed at length by the Harvard Gazette . Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and...

Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia-Montoya awarded John Maynard Smith Prize

September 22, 2026

Current Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia-Montoya was awarded this year's John Maynard Smith Prize, which recognizes an outstanding young evolutionary biologist. Awarded by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the prize is named after John Maynard...

Former Junior Fellow Shriya Srinivasan named a 2026 One Mind Rising Star

September 01, 2026

Former Junior Fellow, Shriya Srinivasan (2020-23), currently an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named a 2026 One Mind Rising Star for her work on digital control of stress and depression via...

Lab of Senior Fellow Xiaowei Zhuang develops new method to map RNA variants

September 10, 2026

Harvard researchers have unveiled a new way to map the molecular activity in complex tissues that can reveal which specific RNA variants genes produce in every cell and every region of the tissue. The technology, described in a new paper in Cell, could...

Former JF Ya-Wen Lei awarded the Berlin Prize for the 2026/27 academic year

May 19, 2026

Former Junior Fellow, Ya-Wen Lei (2013-16), professor of Sociology at Harvard University has been named a 2026-2027 Berlin Prize Fellow . The prize, distributed annually by the American Academy in Berlin, goes to distinguished US-based scholars, writers...

Former Junior Fellow Jacob Tsimerman awarded Fields Medal

July 23, 2026

Former Junior Fellow Jacob Tsimerman (2011 - 14), currently a professor at the University of Toronto, was one of four mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematics in Philadelphia. The Fields Medal, one of the most...

Senior Fellow Greg Nagy named 'Great Immigrant, Great American' by Carnegie Foundation

July 17, 2026

For more than 20 years, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation has marked Independence Day by recognizing a group of naturalized U.S. citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation. Active Emeritus Senior Fellow Gregory Nagy , the Francis Jones...

Junior Fellow Linda Kinster wins Commonweal Short Fiction Prize

June 25, 2026

Current Junior Fellow Linda Kinstler won the third annual Commonweal Prize for Short Fiction for her short story, “Waidmannslust," which is her first published work of short fiction. Linda is also a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and...

Junior Fellow Daniel Cardozo Pinto a Henry Grass Rising Star in Neuroscience

June 22, 2026

Current Junior Fellow Daniel Cardozo Pinto (2025 - 28) was one of three recipients of the 2026 Rising Star in Neuroscience Award from the Grass Foundation. The award, which comes with a cash prize along with mentorship and professional support, focuses on...