Kaitlyn Choi

3 weeks ago | thecrimson.com | Kaitlyn Choi |Sophie Gao

When the Class of 2000 stepped foot in Harvard Yard in 1996, they entered a university on the precipice of internet connectivity. Exactly a decade before, Harvard had linked 13 Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings with data cables. The university had gone officially online in 1992 with its connection to the World Wide Web, and by 1993, 68 percent of the incoming class had college email addresses.

2 months ago | thecrimson.com | Kaitlyn Choi |Sohum M. Sukhatankar

Three Harvard professors were awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prizes, one of the most prestigious prizes in science, on April 5. Awarded annually, the Breakthrough Prize, often referred to as the “Oscars of Science,” seeks to “celebrate the wonders of our scientific age.” The foundation doled out $3 million to each winnerin the Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics categories this year. The awards are sponsored by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Meta CEO Mark E.

2 months ago | thecrimson.com | Kaitlyn Choi |Sohum M. Sukhatankar

Harvard Medical School is located at the Longwood medical campus in Boston. Cedric Lodge, the former HMS morgue manager who was indicted in 2023 for stealing and selling human remains, pled guilty on Wednesday. By Megan M. RossBy Kaitlyn Y. Choi and Sohum M. Sukhatankar, Crimson Staff WritersCedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School who was indicted in 2023 for stealing and selling human remains, filed a guilty plea on Wednesday.

2 months ago | thecrimson.com | Kaitlyn Choi |Sohum M. Sukhatankar

Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that a new open-source artificial intelligence tool is diagnosing patients as accurately as leading proprietary models — like OpenAI’s GPT-4 — for the first time. In a study published two weeks ago, open-source model Llama 3.1 405B was tested against GPT-4 on a set of 70 cases, beating out GPT-4 on both the correctness of the first suggestion and the final diagnosis. The open-sourced tool allows users to download and manipulate the model.

2 months ago | thecrimson.com | Kaitlyn Choi |Sohum M. Sukhatankar

Students at Harvard Medical School celebrated their matches into residency eariler this month. By Pei Chao ZhuoBy Kaitlyn Y. Choi and Sohum M. Sukhatankar, Crimson Staff WritersAfter fifth-year Harvard Medical School students Ruchit Patel and Kelsey Biddle got engaged in 2023, learning they would both be spending residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was a relief.