After seven tumultuous years traveling the world for Operation Smile, Ellen Agler took the past year at the Harvard School of Public Health not just to earn a masters degree in international health, but to reflect and plan her next steps.
Carolina Johnson knows just the job she wants after she graduates from Harvard College. She wants to represent the 25th District of Middlesex County in the Massachusetts legislature.
On a recent Friday between getting back from a training weekend in Pennsylvania and getting ready to head to Greenwich for the United States Squash Team trials, Louisa Hall 04 spent a few hours at the Science Center taking her final exam in English 17: American Literature. The delicate balancing act of academics, training, and competing is hardly unusual for a student athlete. But Halls athletic interests and achievements are.
Stephanie Saldana, who graduates with a master of theological studies (M.T.S.) degree from Harvard Divinity School today, recently heard that she was chosen to be a Fulbright scholar next year in Damascus, Syria, where she will research the Muslim Jesus both historically and in the current moment, focusing on how the figure of Jesus has provided and can provide a springboard for interfaith dialogue.
In the past three years, Daniel E. Ho has had three homes: one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one in New Haven, Connecticut, and a virtual third on the road. Weve come to call this the Amtrak Degree, says Hos dissertation advisor, Gary King, the David Florence Professor of Government. Hes in a joint political science and law degree program at Harvard and Yale it can seem like the commute claims as many hours as we do.
After Mark Jennings receives his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School (HDS) today, hell end up right where he started: on the mean streets of one of the nations toughest cities. But now, as the executive director of the Los Angeles Ten Point Coalition, hell be ministering to youth who are at risk for losing their souls – or their lives – to drugs, gang violence, lack of education and ambition. A decade ago, he was one of those kids.
Maribel Hernándezs parents moved their three children to Houston, Texas, from Mexico City when she was 13. They intended to learn English and then move back to Mexico being bilingual would open more doors in Mexico, and help them to get better jobs and earn more money. This was not to be.
Design School graduate Mollica Manandhars petite stature and soft voice give little indication of the determination and singleness of purpose that have guided her life since adolescence. Growing up in the city of Kathmandu in Nepal, Manandhar knew from an early age that she wanted to be an architect. Ask her why, and she answers with the sort of modest candor that characterizes most of her conversation.
Kristy Elizabeth Benoit, who grew up in the tiny, close-knit community of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, never planned to attend Harvard College. She expected to keep with the local tradition: Stay in the province after high school and create a life for herself.
After an invigorating year at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Gregory Wong said hes ready for new challenges and has lined up a big one: a year working to foster economic ties with Iraq as a foreign service officer in the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Listening to Coleen Sabatini is exhausting. You feel like you lead a sluggish life when the 28-year-old talks about all shes done – besides earn a combination M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School and masters from the Harvard School of Public Health.
One composes operas that are performed all over the world another has done breakthrough work on the psychological effect of racial and cultural stereotyping a third, a scholar of modern European history, has probably shaken hands with more world leaders than nearly anyone else on the planet and a fourth, in addition to heading a non-profit that rescues victims of violent conflict, has served as president of two major universities.
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has named Jack L. Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the 2004 recipient of the ASBMB-Merck Award. This award, which consists of a stipend, plaque, and transportation expenses to the associations annual meeting, at which Strominger will present a lecture, recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology.
This year the Harvard Extension Schools Commencement Speaker Award will go to Catherine Anne Rahaim, who completed her master of liberal arts (A.L.M.) degree in religion. Her speech, titled Open Gates, highlights her experiences taking evening courses after teaching history during the day at Gardner High School.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2004-05 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 43…
Edwin Raymond Corey, a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) for more than 40 years, died on May 28 at his home in Wellesley from complications following abdominal surgery. He was 84.
Mariame Patricia McIntosh and Daniel Walton Reed, members of the M.B.A. Class of 2004 at Harvard Business School (HBS), have been named Deans Award recipients for their accomplishments over the past two years in community building – or, more precisely, nation building – among students at the Business School, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harvey Brooks, a pioneer in incorporating science into public policy and a member of the Harvard faculty for more than 50 years, died May 28 at his home in Cambridge from complications of congestive heart failure. He was 88.Brooks was Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus in the Kennedy School of Government, and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Emeritus, in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS). He served as dean of the Division from 1957 to 1975. In 1976, he founded and became the first director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program of the Kennedy Schools Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1986.
Philip S. Holzman, founder and director of McLean Hospitals Psychology Research Laboratory and one of the worlds pre-eminent scientists in schizophrenia research, died on June 1 at the age of 82.
It wasn’t only students on the road to a diploma taking significant steps at the University this year. It was a time for progress in myriad areas. President Lawrence H.…
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: n…
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Ca. June 1961 – Harvard announces that its new office building and health center on Mount Auburn St. will bear the name Holyoke Center, in honor of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s…
Harvard University has selected the nationally acclaimed planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to create a preliminary planning framework for its future development in Allston.
Alan Altshuler, a member of the Faculties of Design and Government and a distinguished scholar of urban politics and planning, has been named acting dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) effective July 1.
Reducing calories protects mice and rats against breast tumors, a number of studies have shown. Can it do the same for humans? A natural experiment in Norway during World War II hints that it can. Under famine conditions, prepubertal girls who consumed an average of 22 percent fewer calories than normal enjoyed a lower rate of breast cancer.
Douglas A. Melton, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has agreed to serve as chair of the FAS Life Sciences Council, effective June 1.
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