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Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) will open a new office in São Paulo, Brazil this summer, the center’s director, John H. Coatsworth, announced Friday...
...office, set to open July 1, will serve to strengthen ties between Harvard and Brazil—“the fastest growing economy in the Western hemisphere” and “a social laboratory in terms of ethnicity, social class, and gender relations,” Coatsworth said...
...office will also facilitate study abroad in Brazil, recruit Brazilian students to Harvard, and to assist faculty with projects in the country, according to Coatsworth, who is also the Gutman professor of Latin American affairs...
...Although Coatsworth estimated that the Rockefeller Center currently sends approximately 10 or more students to Brazil each summer, he said the only formal program in Brazil has been a Portuguese language and Brazilian culture course offered through Harvard summer school...
...from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 will support the office in São Paulo—“the informal capital of the country”—and fund scholarships for both Harvard students studying in Brazil and Brazilian students coming to Harvard, Coatsworth said. Currently only five students from Brazil are enrolled in the College, according to the Harvard International Office...