The Harvard Horizons Symposium
May 6, 2013 ■ 4:30–6 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
Celebrating the impact of new ideas and new discoveries
On May 6, 2013, Provost Alan Garber, FAS Dean Mike Smith, and GSAS Dean Xiao-Li Meng gathered at Sanders Theatre as the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences celebrated the power of new ideas — and the talent and innovation of the scholars who are generating them.
Read coverage of the Harvard Horizons Symposium in Harvard Magazine and in the Harvard Crimson.
| Edgar Barroso, Music "Enhancing Music, Social, and Entrepreneurial Innovation through Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration" |
Stephanie Dick, History of Science "Aftermath: Following Mathematics into the Digital" |
| Alex Fattal, Anthropology "Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels" |
Hansun Hsiung, East Asian Languages and Civilizations "Textbook Enlightenment: Europe, Japan, and the Rise of Global Distance Learning, 1720–1877" |
| Fenna Krienen, Psychology "Big Brain Science: Strategies for Mapping the Human Brain" |
Aaron Kuan, Applied Physics "Graphene Nanopores for Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing" |
| Liz Maynes-Aminzade, English "Macrorealism: How Fiction Can Help Us Understand a Networked World" |
Jeff Teigler, Division of Medical Sciences "Building Better Vaccines by Learning the Language of the Immune System" |
Read the announcement of the 2013 Horizon Scholars. And read more about Harvard Horizons and the 2013 application, selection, and mentoring process.
Photographs by Ben Gebo









