https://www.gsas.harvard.edu/harvard_horizons
Each year, outstanding PhD candidates are chosen as Harvard Horizons Scholars and receive targeted mentoring and coaching designed to enhance their presentation skills. The program will culminate in the Harvard Horizons Symposium on May 6, 2015, where Horizons Scholars will deliver brief, compelling talks about their research from the Sanders Theatre stage (free tickets available from the Harvard Box Office beginning April 22).
Horizons Scholars receive:
| Bridget Alex, Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology Identifying encounters between Neanderthals and modern humans through reliable radiocarbon dates | Leonora Bittleston, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Convergence of pitcher plant microcosms |
| Shane Campbell-Staton, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Cold-blooded insights into climate change adaptation | Widusha Illeperuma, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, SEAS Engineering with soft materials: Non-traditional applications |
| Céline Leboeuf, Philosophy Embodying resistance to oppression | Prachi Sanghavi, Health Policy Is doing more, doing better? Basic versus advanced life support ambulances for medical emergencies |
| Elisabeth Newton, Astronomy Shedding light on red dwarf stars: Fundamental observations of our nearest stellar neighbors |