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Tag: Allston
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Campus & Community
Allston’s retail profile rising
New tenants, including 11 over the past year, have helped to bring Harvard’s vacant Allston properties back to life.
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Campus & Community
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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Science & Tech
Innovate, create
From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
‘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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Campus & Community
Business School announces Tata gift; two initiatives
A pair of building projects supported by the Harvard Business School takes aim at fostering leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Extra help
Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
A ‘green street’ for Allston
Groups band together to create a “green street” in Allston that embraces sustainable landscaping.
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Campus & Community
Putting, pitching, and playing
Harvard opens mini-golf course, batting cages for the Allston community.
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Campus & Community
Swing time in Allston
Harvard opens community facility in Allston featuring mini-golf course and cages for practicing baseball, golf swings.
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Campus & Community
Boston shines 2010
For the eighth consecutive year, Harvard University is joining with Allston neighbors and local businesses to participate in the city of Boston’s citywide neighborhood cleanup event in Allston on April 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.
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Campus & Community
Helping outside the classroom
HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.
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Campus & Community
Earthwatch comes to Allston
Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental group, announces plans to move its headquarters and staff to a Harvard-owned building in Allston. The group hopes to build partnerships with the community and the University.
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Campus & Community
Charting the leatherbacks
Earthwatch volunteers join in-the-field scientists to help document environmental conditions.
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Campus & Community
Earthwatch Institute moves world headquarters to Harvard property in Allston
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental organization, will move its world headquarters to the Allston neighborhood of Boston this spring, Harvard University announced today (March 24).
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Campus & Community
Allston-Brighton’s ice capades
Harvard extends temporary public ice rink through March, and opens Bright Center to community. University issues grants to Allston-Brighton neighborhood groups.
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Campus & Community
Thrills and spills
Allston-Brighton residents flock to new ice skating rink, which Harvard opened in a former auto garage and showroom.
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Campus & Community
Harvard opens skating rink in Allston
Harvard University will open a free skating rink in Allston on Friday (Jan. 15). The 40-by-60-foot temporary indoor rink will be open to the public Fridays and weekends through March 28.
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Arts & Culture
All fired up
The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to become largest institutional buyer of wind power in New England
Harvard University announced today (Nov. 2) that more than 10 percent of the electricity consumed on its Cambridge and Allston campuses soon will be supplied from a wind farm in northern Maine
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Campus & Community
Building an arts bridge
Arts Bridge is an initiative developed by recent alumni in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now current students in the program are teaching kids from Allston and Brighton how to make their own films.
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Campus & Community
Allston-Brighton has its day
Harvard has hosted its Allston and Brighton neighbors to an early reception and a football game for the past 20 years. It is a bookend to Cambridge Football Day, which was held earlier this month.
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Campus & Community
Harvard may alter some expansion plans
Harvard president Drew Faust indicated yesterday that there is a strong possibility the design of its much-anticipated $1 billion science complex, at the heart of the university’s expansion into Allston, may be scaled back as Harvard grapples with new financial realities….
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Campus & Community
Faust takes the long view
President Drew Faust addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, discusses tough economic times, recommitment to expansion, and ties with Allston neighborhood.
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Campus & Community
Music and art to accompany fall Harvard Allston Farmer’s Market
On Sept. 25, the market will host a number of local musicians and artists from 3-7 p.m. to ring in the fall while displaying some of the season’s best crops.