Tag: undergraduate students

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard basketball prepares for March Madness

    The men’s basketball team at Harvard University returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1946.

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  • Campus & Community

    Housing Day at Harvard

    We take a fresh look at Housing Day, one of the many hallowed traditions at Harvard University.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Innovators – Innovation at Harvard

    Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.

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  • Campus & Community

    Fountain of Youth – Innovation at Harvard

    Our bodies repair and regenerate with the help of compound structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres. But as these telomeres weaken, we age. Harvard swimmer Meaghan Leddy COL ’12 explains how Harvard scientists are exploring ways to reverse the symptoms of aging by increasing the levels of a certain enzyme to keep our…

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  • Campus & Community

    Getting with the Program – Innovation at Harvard

    Students from all disciplines flock to Computer Science 1, or “CS50,” one of the most popular offerings at Harvard.

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  • Campus & Community

    Growing Upwards – Innovation at Harvard

    The roots of innovation at Harvard can often be found in its students.

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  • Campus & Community

    Innovation Motivation – Innovation at Harvard

    In lecture halls, laboratories, and spaces across Harvard, dedicated teachers including Kevin Kit Parker, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, are creating fertile environments for innovation, championing bold ideas and encouraging students to think in new ways.

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  • Arts & Culture

    The Nostalgics, a Harvard Motown band

    One of the many student-led musical groups on campus, The Nostalgics keep a Detroit sound tradition alive as Harvard’s Motown and soul band.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Mariachi Véritas de Harvard

    Created in 2001, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard is a student-run group that focuses exclusively on the mariachi musical tradition.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

    Founded as the Pierian Sodality in March 1808 by a handful of students, today the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is a collection of more than 100 accomplished musicians who present four major concerts each year.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Madison Greer, solo artist

    During her time at Harvard, Jazz singer and junior Madison Greer has developed her skills in music theory and music performance and learned how to “front” a band.

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  • Campus & Community

    HILT Symposium 2012

    The inaugural HILT Symposium opened a Harvard-wide conversation, engaging faculty and students in dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas about pedagogical innovation. The event convened invited members of the Harvard community and presenters from within Harvard and externally who offered interesting and informative perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education, with an emphasis…

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  • Nation & World

    New initiative for better teaching

    The Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching sponsored a daylong conference that united experts and scholars from the University and beyond to debate, discuss, and share ideas on innovative pedagogy.

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  • Nation & World

    The return of ROTC

    Among the top Harvard stories of 2011 was the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to campus after an absence of 40 years. In March, the University signed an agreement with the Navy. By September, offices had opened in Hilles Hall for the Naval ROTC’s Old Ironsides Battalion.

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  • Campus & Community

    The return of ROTC

    Among the top Harvard stories of 2011 was the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to campus after an absence of 40 years. In March, the University signed an agreement with the Navy. By September, offices had opened in Hilles Hall for the Naval ROTC’s Old Ironsides Battalion.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Boxing Club

    Boxing Club helps students learn to take a punch — in life

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  • Campus & Community

    Of brass and khakis

    Harvard’s NROTC midshipmen, from their first salute to their commissioning as officers, learn leadership and discipline during summer training and school-year classes.

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  • Nation & World

    Campus leaders

    U.S. Navy Captain Curtis R. Stevens, Midshipman 1st class Evan Roth ’12, and Midshipman 3rd class Catherine Philbin ’14 discuss the demands and rewards of life in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Harvard University.

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  • Campus & Community

    They Ride by Dawn

    They are an eclectic group of Harvard students, staff, faculty, and community members. They range in age from their late teens to 50-something. They can be freshmen or CEOs, but they move fast, and under their own power. They ride by bike.

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  • Campus & Community

    Student essays honored

    The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded three V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 each at its spring reception in May.

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  • Science & Tech

    Turn off the Lights

    A sustainability music video produced by Harvard University students Akshay Sharma ’14, Maura Church ’14 and Molly O’Laughlin ’11 in anticipation of Earth Day 2011. It was presented at Harvard’s second annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event. Miranda J. Morrison ’14 also assisted with writing the lyrics.

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  • Campus & Community

    Class act

    Jazz great Wynton Marsalis played with young musicians from Harvard and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School in a master class.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Jazz at Harvard

    Harvard sophomore Andrew Kennard discusses his love of jazz and his experience mentoring students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preparing with them for the arrival of Wynton Marsalis at Harvard.

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  • Campus & Community

    Reischauer Institute seeks papers

    The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks submissions for its 2011 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard University announced on Thursday (March 3) that it will formally welcome the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program back to campus, following the decision by Congress in December to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law regarding military service.

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  • Science & Tech

    Like computer science, only cooler

    More than 500 students in the introductory computer science course CS 50 descended on the Northwest Science Building for a music-thumping, popcorn-eating fair where students showed off their projects.

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  • Science & Tech

    At last, the edible science fair

    Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.

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  • Campus & Community

    At last, the edible science fair

    Final projects were displayed Dec. 7 for the “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter” science fair. Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.

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  • Campus & Community

    The Game 2010

    The classic fall showdown as a second-half deluge lifts the Crimson

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  • Science & Tech

    Sustainability at Harvard: We are a living lab

    A video tour through five case studies of sustainability at Harvard, including: * Student Peer-to-Peer Programs Educate and Inspire * Innovative Solutions that Serve as Models for Other * Greener, Healthier, More Efficient Buildings * Rethinking Campus Operations * Building a Culture of Sustainability

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