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Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94 said Tuesday evening that her audiences typically expect her to be sporting a hajib, as well a “long frilly dress and tiara.” But Khan—speaking at the Graduate School of Education about teaching and...
She has ballroom danced in Swaziland, camped with crocodiles and hippopotamuses in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and worked as a peer mentor in a Jamaican HIV orphanage. Her interest in global health and development, which has taken her to the Chinese Center for Disease Control in the past...
Another surprising conclusion that the Minnesota study produced was the fact that children adopted from within the U.S. are more prone to behavioral disorders than those adopted from overseas. Some 40,000 children worldwide annually emigrate from more than 100 countries through adoption, a trend increasing rapidly in the U.S...
The flurry of support for international programs is a testament to this The number of students at Harvard who study abroad each year has grown by 300 percent in the last six years. Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby was a staunch supporter of study abroad and David...
Candid conversations about world affairs and a deeper appreciation of cultures led him to think about how to change his country for the better.