
Q. Do you have a secret nook no one knows about? Do you have special toys on your desk to distract you (or keep you focused)?

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
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.
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.

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.