Tag: Profiles

  • Nation & World

    Research to lose sleep over

    Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.

    6 minutes
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    Hearkening to herbs

    At the Harvard Herbaria, Steph Zabel is a curatorial assistant who digitizes collections of dried plant specimens. After working hours, she tends living and local plants, running her own herbalism businesses.

    3 minutes
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    Daring to be a doer

    Clara Long, who has worked many jobs in many lands, plans to use her new Harvard Law Degree to help ensure the rights of others.

    4 minutes
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    On the go

    Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.

    4 minutes
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    Nabokov’s blues

    Ten years before his novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov published a detailed hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the Polyommatus blues butterflies. A team, led by a Harvard professor, is proving him right.

    3 minutes
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    History in the making

    When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.

    4 minutes
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    Trading places

    Economist Marc Melitz improves models of international trade by viewing broad trends in tandem with the behavior of individual corporations.

    4 minutes
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    Brazil’s public intellectual

    Nicolau Sevcenko, now a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard, reflects on the long journey that brought him here.

    4 minutes
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    25 years of service

    Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.

    4 minutes
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    Figuring out suicidal behavior

    Matthew Nock is a new professor of psychology at Harvard who uses scientific research to try to determine which medical treatments help to prevent suicide.

    3 minutes
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    Crossing that bridge

    On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

    3 minutes
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    Hard science, soft verse

    Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.

    3 minutes
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    Tracing the roots of political thought

    Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.

    5 minutes
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    The gym unlocker

    Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.

    3 minutes
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    Coming and going at Harvard

    Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.

    3 minutes
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    Food for thought, and testing

    Health and safety ninja Valerie Nelson makes sure campus meals are safe.

    3 minutes
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    The piano man

    Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.

    4 minutes
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    Bringing plants, technology together

    Donna Tremonte of the Harvard Herbaria loves plants so much that she travels to far-flung locales like Africa and Venezuela to study them. But that’s just part of her job.

    2 minutes
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    Greening the meaning of bottom line

    Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.

    3 minutes
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    ‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion

    For someone who deep-sixed his BlackBerry (instant e-mail was taking over his life) and traded the local newspaper for a good book (“What do I need to know about Celtics’ scores?”), John Briscoe ’76 is as worldly a person as you are ever likely to meet.

    5 minutes
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    Mohan Sundararaj of HSPH harnesses the power of music to heal

    It was 1998 and Mohan Sundararaj was frustrated. A medical student at India’s Sri Ramachandra Medical College and the child of two physicians, Sundararaj was committed to his medical education but frustrated by the demands that kept him from his other passion: the piano.

    3 minutes
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    Athlete, scholar, humanitarian

    The jersey, the helmet, the pads, the cleats — at a glance it’s easy for Andrew Berry to blend in with the rest of his teammates. But take a look at the Bel Air, Md., native after he’s left the stadium and you’ll realize that it isn’t just football that makes him special.

    4 minutes
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    Calla Videt explores ‘the space between’

    During a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, film director Mike Nichols told students that professional training begins in youth when a person does what he or she loves 10,000 times before even thinking about the arc of a career.

    4 minutes
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    ‘My ministry is in the birthing rooms’

    To Cemelli de Aztlan, the U.S.-Mexico border region is not just a line on a map dividing two nations and two cultures, it’s a place of its own, different from the countries whose edges define it; and it has its own culture of transition, of blending, and sometimes of violence.

    4 minutes
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    GSE dancer Stewart tangos with art, academics

    Robert Stewart knows he doesn’t exactly measure up in his chosen line of work. He is small by the standards used to judge a man in his profession.

    4 minutes
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    Jane Cheng ’09: Preserving art, making it public, passing it on

    Talk about a grand entrance — on her first day of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek, the famed medieval studies library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Jane Cheng ’09 powered up her laptop and promptly shorted out the entire reading room.

    4 minutes
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    Kip Kitur ’09 plans to head home to help

    While growing up in the Rift Valley Province in western Kenya, Kipyegon A. “Kip” Kitur milked goats and fed cattle before running to school. It was two miles away, uphill, past steep maize farms.

    4 minutes
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    Hometown girl makes (and does) good

    Marianna Tu didn’t intend to go to college in her hometown. That town just happened to be Cambridge, Mass., and the college was Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    Nick Rizzo ’09: Have compassion, will travel

    Nick Rizzo ’09 has been certain since the second grade that crimson is his color. The young sports fan from Kingston, Mass., used to travel to Boston with his father to cheer for Harvard in the annual Beanpot hockey tournament. When it came time for college applications, there was no question: early action to Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    Take two: Brother’s keepers Bill and Dan Jones ’09, ’09

    Complete strangers recognize Dan Jones on campus all the time. It’s the same for his brother, Bill. “I just play along,” said Dan. “I don’t know their names, I’ve never seen them before. I just assume Bill knows them and I try to be friendly so they don’t start hating him.”

    4 minutes