Tag: Students
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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.