Tag: Students

  • Nation & World

    Alumni rally behind public service

    Outgoing HAA President Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland says the group’s interest in public service is expanding by leaps and bounds. Incoming President Robert R. Bowie Jr. plans to continue strengthening the alumni community.

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    Commence wonderment

    Harvard’s foundation is built on years of traditions and Commencement offers a collection of the some of the most intriguing. Here’s the back story on today’s events.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard, Yale Back Students in Patent Stance That Aids Poor

    Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University, Yale University and three other schools are pledging to encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products based on…

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  • Nation & World

    Many hands

    More than 60 Harvard volunteers descended on the 80-year-old Cambridge Community Center Inc. (CCC) Saturday (Oct. 24) for a much-needed, daylong facelift.

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  • Nation & World

    Service: Cambridge to Capitol Hill

    A Harvard education includes a healthy dose of service, as illustrated by students working in positions from Cambridge to Capitol Hill.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard: Leadership through service

    Harvard fosters a culture of community service that embraces those who study, teach and work here. An essential component of today’s Harvard education is the call to serve the greater community, both locally and globally.

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  • Nation & World

    President’s office hours

    President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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  • Nation & World

    Election 2008 excitement

    Harvard students came together and tuned in to the national media at Election Night 2008 gatherings that ranged from small and quiet to large and loud, ultimately spilling into Harvard’s Yard and Square.

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  • Nation & World

    Undergrads create ‘dirt-powered’ light for Africa

    A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana, from May 6 to 8, 2008. The team’s innovation, microbial fuel cell-based lighting systems suitable for sub-Saharan Africa, netted the Harvard group a $200,000 prize.

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  • Nation & World

    Around the world in eighty (or fewer) clicks

    Want to see where in the world Harvard is working? Beginning this week, it will take just the click of a mouse.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’

    Students coming into universities today are “digital natives” and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the “digital immigrants” who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

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    Sweeping for Thompson Island Hoppers

    Education meets hands-on science as roughly 100 Harvard undergraduates fan out from beach to beach collecting insects for a new database of Harbor Island insect life.

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    Harvard Gumboots speak with feet

    Students from around the world come together at Harvard to speak the rhythmic language South African miners created during apartheid.

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