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Tag: Harvard College
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Campus & Community
New loan program helps international students
Harvard University has signed an agreement with JPMorgan Chase that will provide graduate and professional students from abroad with access to private education loans. International students are not eligible for federal student loans.
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Campus & Community
Nicholas and Erika Christakis new master, co-master of Pforzheimer
Nicholas and Erika Christakis have been appointed as master and co-master of Pforzheimer House.
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Campus & Community
Tuition to rise 3.5 percent at Harvard for 2009-10
Undergraduate tuition at Harvard will increase 3.5 percent to $33,696 for academic year 2009-10. Need-based scholarship aid is expected to grow to a record $147 million, an 18 percent increase over what was planned for the current academic year. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5…
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Campus & Community
Sherwood-Randall establishes fund for undergrad opportunities
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University recently announced the establishment of the Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Fund. The fund will be used to expose Harvard undergraduates to European public affairs and encourage them to pursue international experiences that include Europe.
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Campus & Community
Four students to attend Clinton Global Initiative Conference
Harvard University students Lizzy Majzoub ’10, Lucy Claire Curran ’11, Helen Strom ’11, and Elizabeth Powers ’10 are among 1,000 student volunteers selected to attend the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) conference in Austin, Texas.
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Campus & Community
Zimbabwean student is Harvard’s 4th Rhodes Scholar
A Harvard College senior from Zimbabwe has become the fourth Harvard student to be named a Rhodes Scholar this year, accepting the prestigious award to study at Britain’s Oxford University.
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Campus & Community
Four students win Marshall Scholarships
Four Harvard undergraduates have received the prestigious Marshall Scholarships, academic grants that will allow them to study abroad for two years. Sponsored by the British government, the scholarships offer exceptional students from the United States the opportunity for graduate-level study at any university in the United Kingdom in a field of their choosing. In addition…
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Campus & Community
Three from Harvard receive American Rhodes Scholarships
Two Harvard College students and a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) doctoral student have received Rhodes Scholarships. Thirty-two Americans were chosen from among 800 applicants for the scholarships to the University of Oxford in England.
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Campus & Community
Remarks of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Remarks by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at Harvard University’s 2008 Convocation.
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Campus & Community
Student prizes awarded in Japanese Studies
The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishers recently hosted the 14th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the 13th annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies. These prizes are given annually by Kodansha Publishers for the best essays written by Harvard University students on Japan-related topics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s roots: From dirt to display case
Just a year after being pulled from Harvard Yard’s soil, the bones, buttons, pottery shards, and type from the press that printed North America’s first Bible are cleaned up and on display in a new exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Campus & Community
‘Gen Ed’ connects students to outside world
As Harvard College ramps up for the official launch of the new Program in General Education — better known as “Gen Ed” — in September 2009, undergraduates are matriculating in the first round of courses related to the new curriculum. Six courses are being offered in the Gen Ed curriculum this fall, with nine others…
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Arts & Culture
Professionals step lively in dance class
Light footfalls and nervous laughter broke the pre-class silence in the Harvard Dance Studio last Tuesday (Sept. 23). Five students faced the mirror, carefully working through the dance steps to “One,” the finale from the Broadway hit “A Chorus Line.”
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Campus & Community
University Hall rearranged, College expands some offices
Many University Hall offices were relocated this summer as part of an effort by Harvard College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to better meet the needs of students and faculty. These changes occur as plans take shape for the College to open additional offices in Holyoke Center.
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Campus & Community
Harvard announces Scott Mead ’77 Family Head Coach for Men’s Tennis
As an undergraduate, Scott Mead ’77 was a talented and versatile athlete for the Crimson, a letter-winner in both squash and lacrosse. He was also a gifted tennis player, but because tennis season overlapped with that of lacrosse, he chose to compete in the tennis tournament circuit during the summer.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads spend summer studying international law, child soldiers
Trevor Bakker ’10 spent this summer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s first permanent war crimes court.
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Campus & Community
Yard takes carnival turn to welcome students
The Tercentenary Theatre was converted into a colorful, albeit slightly damp, minicarnival, Friday (Sept. 12) as Harvard College welcomed its returning and newest undergraduates to campus for an afternoon and evening of food, friends, and fun.
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Campus & Community
Déjà vu marks Opening Exercises
During the Saturday night (Sept. 6) downpour, brought on by tropical storm Hannah, a circuit breaker tripped, plunging Adams House into darkness. While Harvard electricians tracked down the problem, freshmen were sent over to the Science Center for food, movies, and an impromptu meeting with President Drew Faust.
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Campus & Community
Herschbach, Bisson to assume new roles in Harvard College
Georgene Herschbach, a longtime member of the Harvard community who has served the campus in a wide range of capacities, has been named to the new position of dean for administration in Harvard College, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education, jointly announced Aug. 19.
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Campus & Community
Herschbach, Bisson to assume new roles in Harvard College
Georgene Herschbach, a longtime member of the Harvard community who has served the campus in a wide range of capacities, has been named to the new position of dean for administration in Harvard College, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education, jointly announced Aug. 19.
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Campus & Community
Harris named College’s dean of undergraduate education
Jay M. Harris, a longtime member of the Harvard faculty who has also served in a variety of administrative roles at the University, has been named Harvard College’s new dean of undergraduate education. His appointment, by Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, was effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards certificates
The Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy recognized 39 seniors at its annual certificate ceremony during graduation week.
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Campus & Community
IOP announces internships and thesis funding
The Institute of Politics (IOP), located at Harvard Kennedy School, Monday (June 9) announced the selection of 42 undergraduate students, chosen from a pool of 275 candidates, for paid summer political internships.
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Campus & Community
Marquand Award honors five for exceptional performance as advisers
Five exceptional advisers are the winners of this year’s John Marquand Award, which recognizes excellence and dedication in the mentoring and guidance of Harvard undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Hoopes Prize winners number more than 80
More than 80 Harvard College seniors have been named Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. The recipients, including their research and advisers, are as follows:
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Arts & Culture
Changing lives with music and science
When Bong-Ihn Koh’s mother brought home a cello piece by mistake, the young Koh got his hands on it and was hooked.
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Nation & World
Precocious pundit Alexander Burns is off to D.C.
While still an undergraduate, Alexander Burns already had an impact on political discourse in the United States. Beginning in 2005, the history and literature concentrator has been a principal contributor to a political blog sponsored by the history magazine American Heritage. The job has allowed him to explore the pros and cons of contemporary issues,…
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Campus & Community
Dedicated seniors see value in giving back
As vice chairs of the Harvard College Fund’s Recent Graduates Committee, Eryn Ament Bingle ’95 and Thomas M. Reardon Jr. ’96, M.B.A. ’05 couldn’t help focusing on a nagging fundraising statistic: 60 to 70 percent of Harvard seniors give to a Senior Gift fund before graduation, but fewer than 20 percent of those same students…
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Campus & Community
English, Latin, graduate orators get a chance to make their voices heard
This morning’s orations bring together a young literature scholar on the eve of public service, a classics concentrator on her way to medical school (after a year of studying archaeology), and a U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq. In their own ways, the three orators represent Harvard’s diversity as it is measured by the…