Tag: undergraduate students

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    Senior named Churchill Scholar

    Harvard senior Tony Feng will use the award to study theoretical mathematics with a special interest in analysis, differential geometry, and physics.

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    A fireside chat with the dean

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds hosted a fireside chat at her home with Professor Henry Louis Gates and about 25 student participants who had been selected through a lottery system. The chat was part of a series of events designed to foster interaction between undergraduates and faculty outside the classroom.

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    State of the Union: students weigh in

    Hundreds of students from both sides of the political aisle gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for a “State of the Union” watch party sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP).

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    How the big speech fared

    After Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Harvard College students at the Institute of Politics watch party offered their first impressions of President Obama’s second-term agenda.

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    7 speakers, 12 minutes each

    During Harvard Thinks Big 4, six professors and a student delved into their favorite ideas, ranging from a look at why dead Romans are so much fun to a detailed explanation of breast-feeding in mammals.

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    The joy of learning

    During this year’s Wintersession, College-led and student-initiated programming provided opportunities to explore creative passions, pursue career interests, learn about different academic fields, engage in recreational activities with friends, and connect with alumni.

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    The joy of learning

    A video documents how some Harvard students spent their free time during Wintersession, the period between academic terms that fosters creative learning.

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    Competition that computes

    It might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational Challenge, however, both are problems that can be tackled with some clever coding.

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    Direct from Broadway

    The Broadway star Christine Ebersole shared her advice and some tricks of the trade with three undergraduates during a master class sponsored by Harvard’s Office for the Arts.

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    Multimedia immersion

    During Wintersession, the Harvard College Library hosted a multimedia authoring “boot camp,” reflecting the increasingly essential use of media in academic work.

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    ‘Public Interested?’

    Joseph P. Kennedy III kicked off Wintersession’s “Public Interested?” conference on Saturday, speaking about his life in public service and urging audience members to create their own careers by following their passions.

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    Hack Week nurtures innovators

    Seventeen teams of Harvard students toiled on campus during the last days of winter break, working to finish computer projects during the annual Hack Week sponsored by the Hack Harvard student group.

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    After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves

    Tom Wooten ’08 discussed his latest book, which profiles several grassroots recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

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    Scuba, the Harvard way

    Wintersession offers Harvard College students unusual opportunities to explore fresh interests and develop new skill sets, such as personal-finance management, first-responder certification, and ethnic cooking mastery.

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    Piecing the parts together

    An undergraduate suggests that, when it comes to innovation, there is no place better than Harvard to start work on an important initiative, since the University combines entrepreneurship, leadership, and knowledge-sharing into a coherent whole.

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    Building a better machine

    Students in the “Physics and Applied Physics Research Freshman Seminar” labored hard to improve on a model heat engine, continuing the work of a previous class.

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    Wonders of Wintersession

    Wintersession and Winter Break offer many chances to try out a new skill or return to a passion.

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    895 admitted through Early Action

    Harvard College has admitted 895 students to the Class of 2017 under the Early Action program, an increase of 16 percent over last year.

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    Midyear graduates recognized

    More than 100 Harvard students, along with their families and friends, gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Dec. 6 to celebrate the 2012-13 Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The event recognized students who graduate in November or March, off the usual Commencement cycle.

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    For a day, geek is chic

    Hundreds of students — hackers and newcomers alike — showed off their programming chops at Monday’s CS50 Fair, a raucous exhibit of mobile apps, websites, and other projects created for Harvard’s wildly popular computer science class.

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    A class open to the world

    Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations

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    Feeding culinary curiosity

    A summer program aims to teach local schoolchildren that the kitchen and the laboratory — both intimidating places to newcomers — are a great place to explore their natural curiosity, and to learn lifelong healthy habits, too.

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    Houses Today

    House Masters and former students discuss learning outside the classroom and how the housing system enriches life and community at Harvard.

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    A day in the life

    Harvard Kennedy School Shadow Initiative Program

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    President’s Challenge

    A business idea born in a Harvard classroom to improve the delivery of vaccines in developing countries has been selected as the grand prize winner of the Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship.

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    Harvard entrepreneurs weave silk with science

    Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship has selected Vaxess Technologies, a company founded by Harvard students, to receive its grand prize. Vaxess Technologies will share the $100,000 to advance social ventures with SPOUTS of Water, Revolving Fund Pharmacy, and School Yourself.

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    Love Poems

    Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”

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    Harvard student Kelsey Beck is Miss Boston 2012

    Kelsey Beck ’14, was recently named Miss Boston and will be competing for the Miss Massachusetts title in late June.

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    More than one crowning achievement

    Kelsey Beck ’14 was crowned Miss Boston 2012. The Harvard student will compete in the Miss Massachusetts pageant June 29-30 in Worcester. In the meantime, she balances classes and extracurricular activities.

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