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Tag: Mentoring
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Nation & World
The lessons of teaching
Harvard undergrads who mentor elementary, middle school and high school students at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston say they learn as much as they teach.
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Cracking the egg
Mary Caswell Stoddard of Harvard’s Society of Fellows is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her study of bird eggs.
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Opening a portal to summer
The Harvard Allston Education Portal has a summer mentoring program that pairs Harvard undergraduates with schoolchildren from Boston’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood to help find new ways to engage the youngsters in math, science, and writing.
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Nation & World
Style and substance
The culmination of the Harvard Horizons initiative was a symposium in which eight Ph.D. students each offered five-minute presentations, styled on the popular TED talks, about a specific aspect of their current research.
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Discovering the path to Harvard
“In my first semester at Harvard, I worked with several other students to create a chapter of the national DREAM Program here. It was my first foray into working with youth, and I was excited to give Cambridge kids a taste of the campus that was so close to their homes,” says Harvard student Sara…
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Becoming a good doctor
A second-year Harvard Medical School student, Eva Mihalis ’09, recounts how having a caring mentor to help her navigate personal problems taught her how to help nurture others.
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Sharing excitement for learning
Undergraduates who are mentors at the Harvard Allston Ed Portal say that in the end they learned as much as the young students they helped.
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Creative Foundation honors Shalini Pammal
Shalini Pammal ’13 received the Creativity Foundation’s 2011 Legacy Medal for her exceptional creative promise in public service.
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Exploring a world within a world
Lichens provide an avenue for student scientific exploration of plant complexity.
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Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has launched an initiative to assist the professional development of tenure-track faculty.
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Nation & World
Rajan Sonik hopes to cure bodies while energizing hearts and souls
Rajan Sonik arrived at Harvard four years ago aspiring to a career in science or maybe law, but a 14-year-old boy with sickle cell disease Sonik met in his sophomore year through a hospital mentoring program changed everything.