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The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.

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Artificial Intelligence—How Does It Work?

These days, it seems everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning—think ChatGPT. But how do these work, and where do they fall short? In this week’s episode, we do a deep dive on these tools with Fernanda Viégas, whose work in academia and industry focuses on people-centered machine learning.

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Meet Our 2023–2024 Fellows

01 / 09

BornCurious Podcast

01 / 20

By the Numbers

Fellows 1,249
Radcliffe fellowships awarded since the Institute’s founding
Public Events 64,156
Number of people to attend Harvard Radcliffe Institute public events (virtually and in person) since fall 2020
Schlesinger Library Collections 999,999+
Pages of historical material digitized and made available to researchers since 2015

Highlights: Women, Gender, and Society

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Events

01 / 07

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Before we close #NationalPoetryMonth, we'd like to share this poem about grief and beauty from Gabrielle Calvocoressi, who was here as a fellow last year, from their poetry collection Rocket Fantastic.

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Are you following along with our conference “Gender and Politics: Navigating Power and Perception”? Head over to our Linktree and watch online today through 3 PM ET. 🔥🔥🔥 Photo by Jane Huber

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Today is Earth Day, and the climate change and disaster policy expert Rob Verchick says he remains hopeful in the face of climate catastrophes—despite the bad news. Head over to our our Linktree to hear him explain why. Photo by Tony Rinaldo

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