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Tag: Harvard College
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
A collaboration by the Foundation Alícia (Alimentació i Ciència), headed by chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli fame, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has led…
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Campus & Community
A historic year for Harvard admissions
Harvard admits 2,110 out of more than 30,000 applicants to the Class of 2014, a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. More than 60 percent of the new students will receive need-based scholarships averaging $40,000.
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Campus & Community
House masters appointed
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.
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Campus & Community
Coming soon: Harvard garden
Harvard will start gardens for growing food in April, with students taking a lead role.
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Campus & Community
Harvard increases undergraduate financial aid by 9 percent for 2010-11
Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates by 9 percent, to a record $158 million, for the upcoming 2010-11 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard College seniors named Churchill Scholars
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has awarded two Harvard College seniors Zhou Fan and Yi Sun Churchill Scholarships for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Setting up House
New Winthrop House masters, the first African Americans in those roles at Harvard, juggle duties as teachers, researchers, student mentors, and parents of a new baby.
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Campus & Community
Admissions process
The tradition of careful, individual review of applications to Harvard College goes back to its earliest days. Each application receives as many as four readings prior to selection meetings.
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Campus & Community
Nearly $37K raised for Haiti
Harvard students raise almost $37,000 in benefit concert for Haitian relief.
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Campus & Community
David Souter to speak at 359th Commencement
David H. Souter, a native New Englander and Harvard alumnus who served nearly two decades on the U.S. Supreme Court before stepping down in 2009, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 359th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Rating the ratings system
Revised FAS student course evaluation system draws strong 96 percent participation.
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Campus & Community
The Cynthia Wight Rossano Endowed Prize Fund
A new endowed prize fund, established by Daniel Pierce ’56, has been named in honor of Cynthia Wight Rossano for her services to Harvard University and to commemorate Harvard’s history.
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Arts & Culture
Artistic fun or vocation
With professional-level standards already in place and the spirit of self-sufficiency a prized commodity, the question remains: Should there be University-funded performance degrees?
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Campus & Community
Office hours for Dean Hammonds
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds welcomes students to share their thoughts and concerns about undergraduate life during her office hours.
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Campus & Community
The Crimson’s Grand Elections
During Grand Elections, the annual ritual for incoming members of the Harvard Crimson’s editorial board, merry participants sang, danced, and paraded around Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
Yes, Harvard sweats
Known as a bastion of academe, Harvard has more Division 1 sports programs than any other college — and thousands of students in club, intramural programs.
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Nation & World
The Haitian apocalypse
A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads act up
A new collaboration among the A.R.T. Institute, Harvard’s Office for the Arts, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club offers students an intense, three-week immersion program involving graduate-level training in the dramatic arts.
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Campus & Community
‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal, 72
Erich Segal, the author of the Harvard-based novel “Love Story” and who once taught classics at the University, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17. He was 72.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College to enroll small number of transfer students
Beginning next fall, Harvard College will resume enrolling a small number of undergraduate transfer students from other colleges and universities. The College’s transfer program was temporarily suspended in 2008. In…
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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
Jordan scholars honored at luncheon
Longtime supporters of Harvard College financial aid, Gerald R. (Jerry) Jordan Jr. and his family established the Gerald Jordan Family Scholarship in 1995-96 to ensure that undergraduate students in need of financial support are able to attend the College.
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Campus & Community
New director of I Tatti
Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced Dec. 16 that Lino Pertile will become director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, beginning next summer.
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Campus & Community
Houghton to conclude Corporation service
James R. Houghton, the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the University’s 2006-07 presidential search, today announced his plans to step down at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, after 15 years on the Corporation.
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Campus & Community
Rockefeller Fellows chosen for 2010-11
Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Nov. 20-21, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
PBK welcomes new members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, has elected 48 seniors to its Class of 2010.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
New learning space opens in Lamont
Lamont Library recently opened Collaborative Learning Space, an innovative learning space designed to foster collaboration and bring a new level of flexibility to library instruction.