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...talented students from all economic backgrounds are aware that Harvard and all higher education is open to them,” Fitzsimmons said in an interview yesterday. Fitzsimmons also attributed the higher yield to an expanded Freshman Seminar Program, the growth of the Faculty, and an increase in study abroad opportunities. Since 2000, the seminar program has grown dramatically, jumping from 36 course offerings to 141 this year. “That kind of change really underscores the fact that students will have access immediately to senior faculty,” Fitzsimmons added. Similarly, since 2002 the number of professors...
...every part of the University.” A regional office in Santiago, Chile, a scheduled summer opening of an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and plans for a third office in Mexico mark other significant developments. “These outposts, these regional or national offices abroad help us to do a much better job helping both faculty and students get to know the region better,” said Coatsworth, who is a professor of history and Gutman Professor of Latin American affairs. “They are helping Harvard establish ties with academic and scientific...
...field cluttered with propaganda on both sides?the faithful in Beijing exulting in how China has saved Lhasa, their enemies abroad insisting that all Chinese are evil and all Tibetans are pure innocents?Barnett's meticulous documentation has a fresh and welcome air to it. Clearly, he has no time for those who would romanticize old Tibet, or traffic in images of Shangri-La: Tibetans were more than capable of brutality against themselves, he points out, with at least 200 monks dying during an attempted coup in Lhasa in 1947, and the city was never as detached from modern life...
...During a term abroad in East Africa, I acquired the impolite habit of asking non-Tanzanians why they’d come to Tanzania. My own reason was to learn Swahili and to get a sense of the place whose history I’d begun to study seriously...
...might be dubbed the ultimate newcomer to theater—until college. Martin had never pursued acting until halfway through his Harvard career, when an injury forced him out of athletics—his chosen activity up to that point—and a summer abroad inspired him to delve into drama.This year, however, Martin beat out many more experienced actors in winning the prestigious Jonathan Levy Award, which the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) grants to the most promising undergraduate actor in Harvard College. Martin charts his journey to acting beginning with his summer in Avignon, France...