Tag: Hospitals

  • Nation & World

    A COVID-19 battle with many fronts

    The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.

    14 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Clowning around, with purpose

    Laura Ricci, who is receiving a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education, has a long background as a professional therapeutic clown in a children’s hospital.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Swimmer comes up aces

    A top swimmer with hopes for a national title, Chuck Katis also oversees The Magic of Miracles, a nonprofit that entertains sick children.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Haiti: New Hospital

    Harvard faculty work through nonprofit to bring health to world’s poor.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Giving back

    Marie Trottier handles accessibility issues at Harvard for the disabled, but she’s also involved in establishing a hospice, and acts on the side.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wanted: Doctors for Africa

    Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘A place that can be wandered’

    In the early 1990s, while still in high school, Anna Schuleit discovered mystery by taking long walks through the deserted grounds of the Northampton State Hospital. This cluster of Victorian buildings — with its iron-bar windows, crumbling red brick, and chest-high grass — touched a deep chord in the young artist.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Match Day sets the course

    Gordon Hall’s second-floor hallway was alive with the chatter of more than 100 medical students catching up with classmates and renewing old acquaintances as they waited to be summoned past a cluster of colorful balloons, up a short flight of stairs, and into Room 213 where their futures waited. The students, members of Harvard Medical…

    4 minutes