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Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP) launched a Web database last month that will help undergraduates find grants to study abroad. The database, which is online at funding.fas.harvard.edu, could help Harvard move closer to achieving one of the goals set forth by the College’s Curricular Review last April. “Every Harvard College student should be expected to complete an international experience, defined as study, research, or work abroad” according to the summary of the Curricular Review’s principal recommendations that was released at the time. In the first...
...AAAS in the first place. “Professor Mugane is really awesome,” she says. “He not only challenged me to look at things I was interested in, but also in a new perspective. Now, I’m going to be studying abroad in Kenya...
Rubin, who started reading Murakami in 1989, has watched his career take off in the U.S. and abroad. “I knew when I read this guy’s work that I was going to like him when I met him,” says Rubin. “Now he’s many, many more times famous than when I got to know him and he’s the same nice guy. He’s a very sweet guy and unpretentious...
Once scorned by the Japanese literati, Murakami’s novels and short stories have since enchanted critics abroad and at home. In America, critics from the Village Voice to Harper’s have pegged him as Japan’s premier living writer. But few note his distinction as a prolific translator of modern American novels, whose style has greatly influenced his work. Translating is a way for Murakami to get closer to his literary heroes through the text and, occasionally, in real life...
With the Curricular Review encouraging more study abroad options, the University has been preparing to provide emergency medical and evacuation assistance to students, faculty, and staff traveling overseas for University-related activities. In July, Harvard contracted with International SOS, a worldwide provider of medical assistance and services, to insure Harvard-affiliated travelers. The insurance program began in September and will automatically be included in student and faculty study abroad and internship programs. “This is the best kept secret at Harvard,” said Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, who is the director...