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...park” constructed from a former housing project and fed by waste water from the surrounding apartment buildings. Many of Reyes’s works were inspired by ideas he encountered while completing a residency at Harvard in partnership with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). In 2003, Reyes was one of roughly 200 applicants for a fellowship with DRCLAS’ Art Forum, only two of whom eventually received invitations.Over the next three years, Reyes made a series of extended visits to the center that enabled him to interact with faculty and take advantage...
...Harvard students.A lucky group of Harvard students will be able to escape the interminable New England winter for the tropical breezes and raucous tunes of Cuba, a country steeped in history, culture, and geopolitical significance. Earlier this week, Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) announced that it had been granted a license by the U.S. Treasury Department to establish a semester-long study abroad program at the University of Havana. DRCLAS is to be commended for its commitment to expanding study abroad opportunities, and for the 18 months of wrangling with Uncle...
Harvard is preparing to launch a spring-semester study-abroad program at the University of Havana, despite strict federal regulations on U.S. travel to communist Cuba and activists’ concerns about academic freedom in the island-nation. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Harvard College Office of International Programs (OIP) have obtained a federal license for a joint effort with Cuba’s preeminent educational institution. The U.S. government’s current embargo on trade with Cuba has stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs...
Long-time director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) John H. Coatsworth will step down this summer and Latin American policy specialist Merilee S. Grindle will take his place July 1. Currently the Mason professor of international development at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Grindle chairs the DRCLAS research committee and serves on its executive committee. Grindle, Coatsworth, and Jorge I. Domínguez are the three longest-serving members on the executive committee. “She’s thoughtful, she’s careful, she’s caring, she really...
...Crimson got it wrong. Record numbers of students are going abroad this summer with vastly increased support from a growing number of sources. For example, the David Rockefeller Center (DRCLAS) alone is providing support to a total of 128 College students traveling to Latin America this summer. A record number of 65 students will participate in the new DRCLAS internship programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru; 34 students will take advantage of internship and study opportunities that DRCLAS helped them to arrange in other countries of the region, and 29 College students will receive DRCLAS grants for honors...