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Tag: Family
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Nation & World
Getting through it together
Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.
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Blazing her own path
For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.
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‘Dragon Cycle’ examines race, class, gender, and identity
Seattle-based actor/writer Sara Porkalob brings the full “Dragon Cycle” to A.R.T. as part of the “Virtual Oberon” lineup.
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The flourishing of Genesis
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
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Doubling up at Harvard
Harvard staff photographers interviewed four sets of twins currently enrolled as undergraduates at Harvard College, to gain a glimpse into these unusual relationships.
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The leadership of Cesar
Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.
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Trumpet and coffee in hand
Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.
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‘Having it all’ at Harvard
After an Atlantic magazine cover story launched a national debate on how women balance career and family, a group of Harvard women is continuing the conversation, and is looking for new ideas on how to make the work-life juggling act a little less stressful.
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Relief for the weary
Ninety instructors and junior faculty members at Harvard Medical School have received fellowships from the Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine. The program provides grants for recipients to hire lab help or to gain protected time by easing clinical duties.
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Mystery woman
Harvard Extension School instructor Suzanne Berne has written “Missing Lucile,” a family memoir about the grandmother she never knew.
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How to get happy
Former Harvard President Derek Bok and his wife Sissela, a Harvard fellow, discussed their recent books on happiness in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home
Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works…
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‘Power session’ for women held at the Business School
“You guys are going to rule the world, mark my words,” Janet Hanson told a captivated audience in the Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium. “I’m so bullish on your generation, it’s not funny.”