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Tag: Community
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Sharing excitement for learning
Undergraduates who are mentors at the Harvard Allston Ed Portal say that in the end they learned as much as the young students they helped.
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Pondering a precious life
For the past decade, the Harvard Business School Portrait Project has asked graduating M.B.A.s the question once posed by poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The answers are often surprising.
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Farmers markets to return in June
The popular Harvard Farmers’ Market will return to campus on June 14.
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Director of Innovation Lab named
Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities, and provide a forum, both physically and virtually, for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.
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How inviting!
The Common Spaces Chairs Project has returned those colorful chairs to the Yard and booked events through the month of April.
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Making a difference
Across the University, public service programs are thriving, reinforcing Harvard’s founding mission of providing assistance to others.
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Wynton Marsalis to launch lecture series at Harvard University
Harvard University announced today (April 4) that Wynton Marsalis will launch a two-year performance and lecture series on April 28, with an appearance at Sanders Theatre. Currently the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader and educator who has made the promotion of jazz and cultural literacy his…
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A look inside: Dudley House Co-op
Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.
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Aiding a pilot school
Harvard-sponsored math night for elementary-school students and parents at Allston’s Gardner Pilot Academy was the latest collaboration in the University’s long partnership with the school.
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GPA SmartTALK Family Math Night February 16, 2011
The North Allston elementary school’s first Math Night, held Feb. 16, brought parents into the school for an Italian dinner and a chance to learn fun ways to practice math with their children. But the evening, sponsored by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI), also provided the school’s families with insight into the up-to-date learning…
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Ice time
The 22nd annual Allston-Brighton Family Skating Party drew Allston-Brighton residents of all ages to Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center on Wednesday (Feb. 23) for an evening of free ice skating.
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Project success
Project Success, a program operated by the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, targets Boston and Cambridge high school students to participate in mentored summer research internships with Harvard researchers.
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Daffodil Days are here again
Members of the Harvard community are invited to purchase fresh bouquets of daffodils for $10 to support the research and programs of the American Cancer Society. The deadline to order is March 1.
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Beyond the school day
For more than two decades, Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association after-school programs have provided a safe and fun place for students to go in the crucial afternoon hours.
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Something to shoot for
A number of girls and boys from Cambridge and Allston-Brighton who, along with their families, cheered the Crimson to an 83-70 win over UMass. The game capped a series of three Community Days sponsored by the Harvard men’s and women’s basketball teams that offered free admission to Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents over the winter break.
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Aid groups that make a difference
The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.
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How we get hooked
Harvard Provost Steven Hyman gave Harvard’s neighbors in the community a taste of the University’s academic workings, with a community lecture on the biological mechanisms behind drug addiction Dec. 7.
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‘100 Reasons To Give’
The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.
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Ceramics Program hosts holiday show and sale
The Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts will present its annual holiday show and sale Dec. 9-12 at 219 Western Ave. in Allston.
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PBHA launches holiday gift drive
Phillips Brooks House has launched Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.
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You are where you live
A Harvard School of Public Health associate professor examines the link between health and neighborhoods to see whether people’s residential landscapes matter.
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Overjoyed
Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
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‘Treat and Greet’ in Allston
Harvard hosts a Halloween “Treat and Greet” celebration and open house in the Barry’s Corner section of Allston, a get-together that drew flocks of costumed local residents and children.
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Minds in the making
The Harvard Achievement Support Initiative is arming teachers, parents, and community partners with techniques and resources that boost student achievement.
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Family Football Day scores
Every year Harvard invites Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents to Community Football Days to cheer the Crimson and feast on free fare. These two events are among the many sponsored by the University.
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Strong finish
More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.
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The march is on
The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”
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From scorched lot to library park
About 20 children participated in an interactive session at the Honan-Allston Branch Library that outlined the creation of Library Park, which is slated to open next year. Construction is to begin next week.
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Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows
Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.
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CES awards travel grants for 2010-11
The Center for European Studies has awarded senior thesis travel grants to 34 undergraduates and 18 graduate students to fund summer research.
