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...only are mostly lower-income students falling out of the educational pipeline,” Donahue said, “but many are not even graduating from high school.” Accordingly, Harvard said it recognizes its role in reversing the trend. “Our own effort in that regard is the Crimson Summer Academy,” she said. The Academy is a program for high school students from public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge to better understand the opportunities offered by attending college. Donahue also recognized the University’s active approach...
...Future of Energy Series.While hosting an automobile industry official like Susan M. Cischke in a series dedicated to “finding a secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We’ve heard from a variety of perspectives,” said Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and the director of HUCE, who introduced Cischke...
...from the rest of the world for decades, the residents of Rangoon were surely not expecting cavalcades of foreign aid workers to descend in the wake of the cyclone. But what must seem particularly galling is the absence of Burmese military troops participating in the clean-up effort. In September, when thousands of monks led country-wide protests against rising commodity prices, soldiers from the 450,000-strong army responded with chilling brutality, sending rounds of live ammunition into the burgundy-robed demonstrators. The official government death toll was 31, although international observers believe the actual figure was far higher...
...global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi. Now, he works as the branding director for Droga5, a boutique advertising agency, and as a culture jammer who “edits” street advertisements by putting speech bubble stickers on them that any passerby can fill in. It is an effort to allow the viewer, forced to live in a physical environment surrounded by advertisements, to speak back—in a sense, to make the world more like the Web.The future may look like this: the so-called “democratic,” user-generated and user-popularized content...
...effort was there, but every member of the team will say the seniors deserved better.Battling dismal weather, a soggy field, and an energetic Dartmouth squad, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team dropped a disappointing season finale at Harvard Stadium on Senior Day last Saturday.In a game that featured momentum swings for both sides, the Big Green (7-7, 3-3 Ivy League) coupled a blistering start with a punishing second half to earn a 12-6 victory and dash any hope of a .500 season for the Crimson (6-8, 1-5).“It?...