Tag: Ghana

  • Nation & World

    Engineering change

    After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.

    4 minutes
    Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21
  • Nation & World

    Preserving Africa’s culinary heritage

    Chef Selassie Atadika talks about new African cuisine in a ‘Science and Cooking’ lecture

    3 minutes
    Selassie Atadika speaking in front of a projected image of African food
  • Nation & World

    Rising to the challenge

    MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.

    5 minutes
    GSD student Maclean Sarbah He is seen at Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Nation & World

    Designing a cleaner future

    A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention when the world realized it’s where computers go to die. That was when Harvard undergraduate Rachel Field ’12 devoted her senior thesis project to addressing the problem. Her solution was an award-winner.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When the beat goes off

    Rhythm research has implications for both audio engineering and neural clocks, said Holger Hennig, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Eric Heller in the Physics Department at Harvard, and first author of a study of the Ghanaian and other drummers in the journal Physics Today.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Out of Africa

    Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.

    4 minutes