Tag: Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

  • Nation & World

    The green escape

    A sustainability-themed escape room served as a test of puzzle-solving skills and a lesson on sustainable lifestyle shifts during Harvard Heat Week.

    5 minutes
    Jena Lorman (left), Michael Cheng, and Tyler Morris solve puzzles in a sustainability-themed "escape room."
  • Nation & World

    Harvard professor explores marine biology with teens

    Peter Girguis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, hosted nearly two dozen Cambridge Rindge & Latin School students on Harvard’s campus for a discussion about the various career paths available in marine science.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    So close and yet so far

    The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teens learn and earn at Harvard

    Despite a bleak forecast for summer jobs for teenagers, Harvard employed more than 150 teens from Boston and Cambridge to work throughout the University. According to the teens, the skills they acquired include some valuable life lessons.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The poetry of achievement

    Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In praise of America’s music

    As part of a two-year lecture and performance series, jazz great Wynton Marsalis performed with a seven-piece band at Sanders Theatre.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It’s the ‘lab-on-a-chip’ model

    With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.

    5 minutes