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In Aftertaste, senior Ceridwen Doveys documentary film about South African empowerment project wine farms, there are no good guys or bad guys, no obvious winners or clear losers.
Next fall, while many of her fellow graduates are sending their resumes around to Fortune 500 companies or getting ready to pursue graduate or professional degrees, Shelby Braxton-Brooks 03 will be taking a route that is a little less well-worn and, in some peoples estimation, a lot riskier.
In his sophomore year, Sachin Shivaram 03 spotted a course at the Kennedy School of Government that sounded tailor-made to his interests: Race, Class, and Poverty in Urban America, taught by sociologist William Julius Wilson.
When Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton receives the M.Ed. degree today from Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE), hell be one of the few graduates whose parents are not proud.
For someone who likes to get things done, often in overtime, senior hockey standout Jennifer Botterill places a surprising amount of stock in the power of persuasion. Yet the explosive Canadian forward – part owner of four Beanpot titles (two of which she won in OT), one national championship (also won in OT), and two Olympic medals – also understands when to pounce on opportunities like few in the game.
Johanna Paretzky 03 came to Harvard a jock. Her high school days and summer vacations had been filled with soccer, basketball, and karate, and she considered competing at Harvard.
On his first day at Harvard, John Rigby 03 thought the place was a mess. The Yard was littered with branches, twigs, trash, and whole oak trees torn from the ground. Of course, there was a good reason for the carnage: Boston was just beginning to peek out from hiding after the great hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938.
Driving along Interstate 80, pulling a rented trailer containing all his worldly possessions, Christopher Alloways-Ramsey had no way of knowing that his life was suddenly about to change.
When Sara Goldhaber met Jeremy Fiebert during their first year at Harvard, they had no idea that, eight years later, they would be trying to get rural people in Costa Rica to exercise more and eat less sausage and cake.
Inside University Hall recently, five former deans of Harvard College gathered with the present dean and the soon-to-become dean for an informal portrait. In the back (standing left to right) are former Dean John Fox, Dick Gross (presently dean of undergraduate education), and present Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis. Seated left to right are former Harvard College deans Ernest May, Fred Jewett, Charles Whitlock, and Fred Glimp. After the photo op, the men chatted amiably (left).
This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Stephen Silver, A.L.M. 03, concentrator in religion. The title of his talk will be Thomas Wolfe Was Right … Half-Right.
The Radcliffe heavyweight crew captured the NCAA championship this past Sunday (June 1) on Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis. The Black and White clinched the NCAA team title – the teams second since 1972 – by winning the varsity race with a time of 6:26.98, besting Michigan (6:28.58), Stanford (6:29.54), Washington (6:30.07), Virginia (6:31.49), and Southern California (6:38.33).
The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowships, prizes, dissertation completion grants, and research travel grants for 2003-04.
A.R.T. one of Time’s top five Time magazine has recently named the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) as one of the five best regional theaters in the country. For its focus…
The Humanities Center at Harvard has named teaching fellows Marianne Hopman and Keja Valens recipients of its 2003-04 interdisciplinary dissertation completion fellowships. Hopman (Department of Classics) received the fellowship for The Figure of Scylla in Greek Culture, while Valens (Department of Comparative Literature) was recognized for Between Women: Figurations of Desire in Caribbean Literatures.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 36 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $350,000.
At the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony held Wednesday (June 4) in Tercentenary Theatre, nine Harvard seniors took the oath of office administered by Roger C. Taylor 53, retired Navy officer, currently a writer on nautical subjects.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers urged the rushed, overscheduled Class of 2003 to know their priorities, to know that time is precious, and to keep the daily rush of temporarily urgent tasks from crowding out whats truly and enduringly important in life.
Harvard senior Amy Bei became interested in tropical diseases in the summer after high school, when she worked at a lab in San Francisco, near her home in Santa Rosa, Calif.
This is not the Worcester, Mass Boat Show, is it? I am sorry. I have made a terrible mistake. Ever since I left “Saturday Night Live,” I mostly do public…
In order to gain admittance to Harvard Yard on Commencement morning, June 5, guests must have Commencement tickets, which they will be required to show at our gates.
C. Dixon (Dick) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. 56, has been elected president of the Universitys Board of Overseers for 2003-04. He will succeed Thomas S. Williamson Jr., A.B. 68, following Commencement on June 5.
A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 5). For the 15th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards Commencement Exercises.
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