Tag: Profile
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Campus & Community
Hearth and home — in Stone Age
Motivating Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark’s interest is what she calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history.
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Campus & Community
Seeing obstacles, remaining undeterred
“I do have worries and fears,” says Oren Rimon Or ’23. “But I have developed the confidence that when you want something, you find a way to do it.”
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New faculty: Norman Yao
Physics Professor Norman Yao describes his journey in quantum physics.
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Campus & Community
The double life of Truelian Lee
Concentrating in chemistry and English, Truelian Lee blended art with scientific problem-solving to bring chemistry to wider audiences.
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Campus & Community
Scene: College
Actor Ece Hakim, who has appeared in 10 soap-opera-style television series and two movies in Turkey, plans to continue her career after graduation, this time in the U.S. But she values what she has learned from psychology, a discipline she recognized early on offers important insights for her work on the set.
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Fueling a creative spark
Hands-on engineering challenges fuel Daniela Villafuerte to solve problems and help build a better world.
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Campus & Community
Engineering a startup by degrees
When Michael Mancinelli ’15 arrived on campus to begin his journey through the M.S./M.B.A. program, it almost felt like he was coming home.
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The rhythmatist
Graduate Rajna Swaminathan has spent the better part of her life exploring, improvising, and bringing together different worlds — in music and in life.
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Campus & Community
A personal revelation put Nelson LaMarche on the right path
This self-described “germophobe” shifts from medicine to key research investigating obesity, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.
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Changing lives through dentistry
For Kobie Gordon, M.M.Sc. ’21, the ability of dentists to transform lives by fixing smiles was a superpower he wanted to possess.
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Cellist finds creative side to physics
When she came to Harvard as a first-year, Danielle Davis ’21 thought music was her focus … until engineering piqued her interest.
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Setting sail for service
Growing up in central Indiana, Gayatri Balasubramanian focused on academics and music, but when she came to Harvard she wanted to take on new challenges — and she did.
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Making his impact
Yoseph Boku’s drive to make a difference started his first year at Harvard, when he realized he could help local disadvantaged teenagers and young adults.
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Puzzling out a life’s work
Orvin Pierre ’22 pieces together studies in science and humanism to prepare to be a physician.
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Science & Tech
Digging into the history of the cosmos
The main goal of Cora Dvorkin’s lab is trying to understand the nature of one of the universe’s most important and puzzling features: dark matter.
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Pandemic does little to slow traveling grad
Harsh Sinha ’20 visited more than 80 countries during time at Harvard College. His goal is to be the youngest person to have visited 50 states in the U.S., as well as 100 of the U.N.-recognized nations.
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Campus & Community
Flying high, then returning home
Blythe George is the first member of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Spreading the word on sustainable development
Hadiza Hamma has a plan for the construction of a road that will dramatically improve the quality of life in Afaka, a town in her home country of Nigeria.
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Back where she began, but much changed
Economist Talia Gillis held her own commencement ceremony while quarantined in her childhood home in Jerusalem, along with her husband and three children.
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Campus & Community
A captain for our planet
Throughout her academic career — from Princeton University to University of Cambridge, and finally Harvard — Christina Chang, Ph.D. ’20, has worked toward a more sustainable world one invention at a time.
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Clearing the air
Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable
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Campus & Community
A new mission in Haiti
When Christophe Millien finishes his graduate studies at Harvard Medical School this month, he will return to Haiti to address the medical problem caused by uterine fibroids suffered by Haitian women.
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Campus & Community
Hitting full stride in emergency medicine
Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.
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Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia
D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.
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‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’
Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.
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Campus & Community
In tune with a program of dual study
Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.
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Campus & Community
Rising above a biased system he’s now determined to change
Growing up in Mattapan, Kwame Adams refused to be defined by low expectations. Now the Ed School grad aims to help Boston students of color avoid the same biases he faced.
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A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Coming full circuit
From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.