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##  News 

 



  [### Making Important Contributions To Understanding Rett Syndrome, Autism

 ](/news/2026/06/making-important-contributions-understanding-rett-syndrome-autism) June 01, 2026 

 PhD graduate Devorah Kranz brings to research the creativity and holistic thinking she developed growing up in a Hasidic Jewish community. READ MORE. 

 

 

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   [### As They Advance Critical Research, PhD Graduates Agree: ‘Science Is a Community Project’

 ](/news/2026/06/they-advance-critical-research-phd-graduates-agree-science-community-project) June 01, 2026 

 Community and mentorship shone as prominent themes at the Harvard Medical School-Affiliated PhD Programs Hooding Ceremony on May 28 as scholars received their doctoral hoods after many years studying, collaborating, and stretching themselves as they... 

 

 

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   [### First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious

 ](/news/2026/05/first-rule-disease-fighter-be-curious) May 22, 2026 

 Ph.D. candidate Isaac Witte retraces ‘incremental advances’ that unlocked CRISPR technique. READ MORE. 

 

 

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   [### How Music Moves the Brain

 ](/news/2026/05/how-music-moves-brain) May 18, 2026 

 Christine Junhui Liu graduated from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in November 2025 with a PhD in speech and hearing bioscience and technology. She discusses her early passion for the viola, how curiosity about music... 

 

 

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   [### Persistence Brought This First-Generation Student to a Career in Neuroscience

 ](/news/2026/05/persistence-brought-first-generation-student-career-neuroscience) May 18, 2026 

 PhD graduate Dionnet Bhatti Mazo explores how our brain interprets the world. READ MORE. 

 

 

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