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Maybe a teacher. Or maybe an education policy reformer.
Andrew Zonneveld believes public service is way to make a real difference in world
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Passion for advocacy nurtured at home
Maryam Guerrab, a child of Algerian immigrants, seeks to combine important lessons from classroom with powerful ones from life
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Her parents came from India. She wants to help other newcomers.
Merlin D’souza has her sights set on medical school
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Providing medical care is important, but so is ensuring access
Morgan Byers grew up in a small Georgia community with big ideas of how to help
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Women’s basketball on the road to March Madness
Ivy League champs return for first time in 18 years,
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Tending Her Gardens
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Beloved Music Teacher Vosgerchian Dies At 77
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Newsmakers
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Notes
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Weatherhead Center Announces Faculty Research Program for 2000-01
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Radcliffe Institute To Host South African Leaders
While South Africans around the world celebrate their countrys Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the…
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Appiah Named Director of South Africa Fellowship Program
For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since…
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Season Ends, Coach’s Fight for Health Continues
Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson womens basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming…
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Credit Union Receptionist June Dowling Dies
June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband,…
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Kovach Prepares To Bring Journalistic Lessons into Boardrooms
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John McCarthy, Retired Stonemason, Dies at 88
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Navin Narayan, Student Who Was Rhodes Scholar, Dies of Cancer
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Robert J. Orchard Named Director of Loeb Drama Center
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Police Log
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Conference Showcases Public Service Careers for Undergraduates
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Freshman Skater Crowned National Champ
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Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort — Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith’s openness in her fight with breast cancer
Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coachs blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…
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Immersed in Words: Connie Juel Plans to Take Harvard into Schools
Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is…
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Metaphors That Open Doors
“Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?” wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “Does language change the way people think?” A former seventh-grade science teacher, Immordino-Yang is…
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Portrait of an Artist’s Mind
Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. It has taken years for Sheridan…
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Looking Inside of Learning
Michael Connells fascination with “neural networks”computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over timestems in no small part from a “crystallizing moment” he…
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Shifting Ground: Busing through the Eyes of a Southie Schoolboy
In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s.…
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Envisioning the Ideal Education President
In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to…
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Faculty Council Notice – March 8
At its 10th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Anne Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, and University Attorneys Robert Iuliano and Allan Ryan, the present status…
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Geospatial Data and Information System Will Open Up New Avenues for Researchers
Once the province of astronomers, land planners, and geoscientists, in the past several years, geospatial data and the tools to analyze it have become increasingly available and valuable …
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Composer Harbison To Receive 2000 Harvard Arts Medal
Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison 60 (AM 68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of…
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Helping a Student-Run Homeless Shelter
President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a…
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Housing Studies Fellowship Offered
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic…
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HRO To Host Outreach Concert for 1,000 Cambridge Schoolchildren
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Internet Conference Lottery Deadline Is March 17
The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual…