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Students, administrators, and professors gathered to honor the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ 2007 Scientist of the Year, Baldomero M. Olivera, at a reception in Pforzheimer House this past Friday. The event kicked off the Foundation’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which took place on Saturday. Past Scientists of the Year have included Mae C. Jemison, the first black female astronaut, and Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher famous for training and encouraging Latinos in Los Angeles to take and pass the Advanced Placement Calculus...
...Baldomero Alejos, whose photographic documents of life in the Ayacucho region of Peru currently hang in the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) building, considered himself a tradesman, not an artist. But considering his unusual talent for composition, dynamism, and detail as displayed in the exhibit, it seems that he sorely underestimated himself...
DRCLAS and the Center for Latino Arts (CLA) in Boston are jointly exhibiting “Retouched: The Photographs of Baldomero Alejos.” The majority of Alejos’ work was studio portraiture, on display at CLA. In his time away from his studio, however, Alejos created a vast photographic archive of the events and people of rural Ayacucho, of which 41 prints will be on view at DRCLAS for the rest of the semester...
...Retouched: The Photographs of Baldomero Alejos” is open until June 1, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street and at the Center for Latino Arts, 85 W. Newton Street, Boston...
While they now live modestly on Baldomero's 300-peso-a-month pension (just over $3), Maria claims they long ago "learned to scale back for the benefit of the country." Her husband expounds on a widespread theory: young Cubans who never experienced American capitalism are far more eager to put to sea in its pursuit than their parents, who knew capitalism's dark side firsthand. "They see pictures of their relatives in Miami with late-model cars and Seiko watches and Levi's," he says, "and they are tricked into thinking Cuba's problems are internal and salvation lies...