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Student Affairs


The GSAS Office of Student Affairs is responsible for the welfare of graduate students and monitors their academic status, progress, and discipline. The office also administers leave/travel applications and readmission applications.

Garth McCavana, Dean for Student Affairs

Rise Shepsle, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs

Ellen Fox, Director of Student Services

Student Affairs Articles


GSAS Welcomes Morehouse Hopps Scholars

Posted March 15, 2011

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed more than 65 students from Morehouse College on March 9, as part of an outreach program designed to encourage talented minority students to pursue careers in the sciences.


Science in the News, and in the Pub

Posted March 03, 2011

Allegations about vaccines and autism, robots that mimic bugs, how memories are formed (and lost) — these are just some of the subjects explored by Science in the News (SITN), a public service organization founded by Harvard PhD students in 1999.


A New Diversity Push

Posted October 06, 2010

Sheila Thomas, the Graduate School’s newly appointed assistant dean for diversity and minority affairs, plans to grapple head-on with the complex issues that surround efforts to recruit underrepresented minorities to join Harvard's PhD community and support them effectively when they arrive.

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