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Campus & Community
Luncheon honors Weissmans, interns
Rafael Buerba ’08 worked as an operating room assistant in Barcelona, Spain. Christina Xu ’09 helped set up a record label and radio network in the prisons of Kingston, Jamaica. And Robert Ross ’09 tracked children in displaced person camps in Uganda.
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‘We are all teachers and we are all learners’
The threat of thunderstorms on Sunday (Sept. 9) persuaded planners of the Opening Exercises for the Class of 2011 to move the event from the tree-shaded lawns of Tercentenary Theatre to the varnished vaults of Sanders. The venerable auditorium, Harvard’s largest indoor venue, was filled to capacity by the crowd of freshmen and their parents.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College Fund’s ‘Peabo’ Gardner dies
On Sept. 5, Harvard and the Harvard College Fund lost one of its best-known loyalists. George Peabody Gardner III, known to colleagues and friends everywhere as “Peabo,” succumbed to cancer…
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Opening Days will last all year
On one of the last sweltering days of the summer, 1,675 first-years moved into the freshman dormitories. The next day the temperature dropped but their excitement didn’t. Over the coming weeks these new students face the challenge of adjusting to an entirely new life. To help them in these challenging first days — packed with…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Professor Pilbeam to serve as interim dean of College; Cohen named to Technology Review’s list of top young innovators; Forstein named to residency review committee of ACGME
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Campus & Community
‘Being good for something’
In her classroom, Sherri Geng ’09 has put up a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” Being good for something and thereby becoming an agent of change is an idea she wants to get across to her students. “If you’re truly invested in what you’re…
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Campus & Community
Young scientists do summer research
During this short hot summer, approximately 120 undergraduate scientists spent more time on the laboratory bench than at the local beach. These fledgling biologists, chemists, and engineers were participating fellows in the Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE).
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center awards grants, fellowships
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently announced that it has awarded 27 grants to support Harvard College undergraduates and 12 to support Harvard doctoral students for research this summer. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students by increasing financial resources, expanding the number of student awards available,…
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Campus & Community
Inaugural Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize is awarded
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley…
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Campus & Community
Dept. of Music announces fellowship, award winners
Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced its fellowship and award recipients. Close to $220,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students.
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Campus & Community
Career forum, June 12
Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, will host its ninth annual career forum on June 12. The event will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. and will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
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Hoopes Prize winners for ’07 are announced
More than 70 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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Herchel Smith Fellowship awardees named
The following undergraduates have been selected as winners of the 2007 Herchel Smith Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship. The fellowship aims to support academically motivated Harvard undergraduates in pursuit of personally significant scientific research experiences during the summer or on a leave of absence. The scholarships will support research projects undertaken with an established research center…
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Campus & Community
Eggleston’s formula: Hard science and the joy of art
As a toddler, Sarah Skye Eggleston ’07 of Quincy House wore a Harvard jumpsuit — the stuff of parental dreams. It worked.
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Viviany Taqueti: Writer, doctor, public servant
As a young girl, Viviany Taqueti followed her doctor father as he made rounds in the two hospitals he built in the jungles of Brazil. Sitting on the banks of the muddy, mighty Amazon River, Taqueti decided that she wanted to be like him, a person who improves the lives of others and who believes…
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Campus & Community
‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’
Students coming into universities today are “digital natives” and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the “digital immigrants” who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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Reunion classes give back
Reunion classes have contributed critical unrestricted funds for Harvard College and funded three professorships, two junior professorships, and some 15 scholarships. To date, four campaigns have exceeded $20 million, with a little less than a month remaining in the fundraising year.
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Personal glimpses into Harvard history
Since its founding in 1636, Harvard has moved through many great historical dramas. History as a listing of events — as chronicle — has its uses, but often more insight is gained through personal accounts. Great events and small can often be better understood in the light of private recollections.
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Rhetors are revved up and ready to roll
Before long, Charles Joseph McNamara ’07 will be with Teach For America in a rural Mississippi high school.
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Clinton lends class to Class Day
In his Class Day speech on Wednesday (June 6) Bill Clinton remarked that the great lesson he learned from the human genome project, which was brought to completion during his presidency, is that genetically all humans are 99.9 percent identical.
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Be careful what you work for
Harvard interim President Derek Bok bid the Harvard College Class of 2007 farewell Tuesday (June 5), urging graduating seniors to consider the true roots of happiness in life, and cautioning that while society values wealth, for most people money does not equal satisfaction.
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Campus & Community
Poetry, argument, ritual mark PBK ceremony
Just after 10 Tuesday morning (June 5), crowds of Harvard seniors in black cap and gown gathered outside Harvard Hall. Family and gowned faculty mixed in, and cameras were soon clicking portraits against backdrops of tree and lawn and brick. The rain held off.
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Michael D. Smith named next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Michael D. Smith, a distinguished computer scientist, admired teacher, and skilled administrative leader, will become the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this July, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced today.
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Yield for the Class of 2011 nears 80 percent
Nearly 80 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2011 will enter Harvard in September, identical to last year’s Class of 2010. The yield may rise slightly once the final returns are in, including about 35 students who will be admitted from the waiting list over the coming weeks.
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Freshman advising draws lively crowds
Students and administrators have declared Advising Fortnight a success. The two-week event organized by Harvard College marked the beginning of pre-concentration advising for the Class of 2010. First-years flocked to advising events — scores of them — held by every academic department and degree program, with attendance approaching 3,000.
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OfA, OCS name inaugural Artist Development Fellowship recipients
Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) and Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2006-07 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship. This new program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual accomplishment and/or evidence of significant artistic promise.
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Harvard Magazine names Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2007-08 academic year will be Liz Goodwin ’08 and Samuel Bjork ’09, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of 30 student writers’ applications for the position — the largest pool of candidates in the program’s history.