Alumni News & Profiles

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Miriam Huntley

Alumni News Brief

Alumni startup awarded $6.2 million

Day Zero Diagnostics is working on tools to diagnose superbug infections

Ph.D. alumna Miriam Huntley is co-founder and CTO of Day Zero Diagnostics

Martin Chavez

Alumni News Brief

Chávez to lead Overseers

Chávez has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for the 2020-21 academic year

He will serve in the board’s top leadership role for the final year of his six-year term

Jessica Hammer

Alumni News Brief

Hammer earns NSF CAREER Award

Hammer receives the organization’s most prestigious award for young faculty members

The award will support her work on creating learning-supportive game-streaming interfaces

Ryan Truby

Alumni News Brief

Truby to join Northwestern University

Applied physics grad to join Northwestern in fall of 2021

Truby studies new materials and manufacturing strategies for soft robots

Marie desJardins

Alumni News Brief

DesJardins receives outstanding AI educator award

Alumna named Outstanding Educator by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Marie desJardins is dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences at Simmons University

Kharma Foucher

Alumni Profile

Alumni profile: Kharma Foucher, S.B. ’96

Gait mechanics researcher takes steps to help arthritis patients stay active

Gait mechanics researcher takes steps to help arthritis patients stay active

Andrew Bosworth

Alumni Profile

Alumni profile: Andrew Bosworth, A.B. ’04

One of Facebook’s first employees leads its leap into augmented and virtual reality

One of Facebook’s first employees leads its leap into augmented and virtual reality

Alumnus Leif Jentoft

Alumni News Brief

RightHand Robotics expands to Germany

Startup was co-founded by Leif Jentoft S.M. ’13, Ph.D. ’14

The company provides integrated robotic piece-picking solutions