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Tag: Leverett House
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The House that will be home
On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.
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Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
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House staff and volunteers roll up sleeves
It’s all hands on deck to help students arrange travel, ship and store their stuff, and depart campus.
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Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Singing in the rain
Students from a first-year think tank led a successful effort to plant a pair of rain gardens on campus.
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‘Stunning progress’
The public arena has made great strides toward diversity — as Harvard’s evolution has shown — but neighborhoods and schools need to catch up, according to sociologist Orlando Patterson, who said he arrived on an overwhelmingly white campus in 1970.
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New faculty deans for Leverett House
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Professor Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras as the faculty deans for Leverett House.
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Siyani Chambers: Back on point
Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.
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Greening starts at home
In myriad ways, Harvard is working across its campus to reduce energy use, curb climate change.
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Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry
Every House is best: The Class of 2019 learns their housing fate.
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Age-old enchantments
During an afternoon demonstration and evening concert and reception, “Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives” students assembled, tuned, and played replicas of the world’s oldest known instruments, and sampled food based on 4,000-year-old recipes.
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Pop art on spaghetti
In homage to the pop artist Corita Kent — who regularly featured food in her work — and the Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop,” Harvard University Dining Services hosted “Corita Night” in the University’s dining halls, with meatballs as the focus.
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Sea of Crimson, canopy of green
The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard.
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Leverett’s evolution
Leverett House’s McKinlock Hall reopened to students at the beginning of the academic year after 15 months of reconstruction. McKinlock is the second completed project in the House renewal initiative,…
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McKinlock Hall, rejuvenated
Leverett House’s McKinlock Hall re-opened to students at the beginning of the academic year after 15 months of reconstruction. McKinlock is the second completed project in the House renewal initiative, which is one of the largest and most ambitious capital improvement campaigns in Harvard College history and a major campaign priority.
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House renewal and rebirth
House renewal is one of the largest and most ambitious capital improvement campaigns in Harvard College history, aiming to transform the student experience by ensuring that each House can strongly support the learning and living needs of the modern undergraduate.
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House renewal in ‘full swing’
The renovation of Dunster House, which will be the first full House to undergo renewal, is to begin immediately after Commencement and last 15 months. The Dunster community will be relocated for the next academic year to “swing” facilities, with its temporary hub at the former Inn at Harvard, which is undergoing a complete renovation.…
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Dunster reimagined
Newly revealed plans for the renewal of Dunster House show significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways.
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‘Levolution’: Life amid renewal
A gathering of the Leverett clan, amid House renewal, includes students living elsewhere temporarily.
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Parting words
An Ethiopian classicist, a French explorer, and a New York policeman-turned-HKS student will speak at this year’s Morning Exercises on May 30.
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Physics and … basketball?
At first glance, physics and basketball seem worlds apart, but at Harvard they’re connected in more ways than one.
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A week in the life of Leverett House
Established in 1930, Leverett House is the largest residential House at Harvard. These photos explore a week in the life of Leverett House.
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New life for McKinlock
The second House renewal test project, Leverett’s McKinlock Hall, is scheduled to begin in June. The project will result in greater common and recreational space for students, which will help foster community and nurture learning.
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House renewal, ready for launch
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard College announced plans to launch the systemwide effort to renew the University’s 12 undergraduate Houses. The announcement unveils Dunster as the first full House to be renewed, along with the location of “swing” housing, and the pacing for the project.
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House renewal supports local economy
Harvard University today announced plans to undertake a wide-ranging construction program that will result in the creation of nearly 3,600 local construction jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in new local economic activity while ultimately funneling approximately $10 million into Cambridge city coffers in permitting fees alone.
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Architecture of experience
Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.
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History in the baking
In a question-and-answer session, Harvard alumna and chef Joanne Chang recounts the challenge of creating a giant dessert for Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration.
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Racing to find her passion
Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.
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Not just hot air
Efforts to make the University sustainable have played a critical role in changing everyday behavior, from recycling to composting to conserving energy. In the process, Harvard serves as a kind of experimental model.
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PBK inducts Class of 2012 members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, will induct 24 juniors at a formal ceremony at Leverett House on April 25.