A break for exploration
For some graduate students, January means a long slog through cold, gray days and seemingly endless hours in the lab or the library. For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), however, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in director Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator. Those sessions and more were just some of the more than 100 classes, seminars, and workshops that were offered to GSAS students throughout the month as part of the fourth January@GSAS. The annual January offerings are designed to give students a chance for professional development and social interaction, as well as an opportunity they might not otherwise get during the semester to explore unusual interests. Jason Silverman (left) listens as GSAS student Andre Green asks a question. Photo by...