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...Starr Foundation??along with representatives from the five institutions—will divvy up the offer this November based on research plans proposed by the recipients...
...victim of what he called a “common pathology,” with answer sets that aren’t exhaustive or don’t correspond to actual responses. As the basis for their own survey, the principal investigators looked at previous surveys, including the Mellon Foundation??s deacde-old study, “College and Beyond,” long considered a seminal work. College and Beyond targeted 34 selective colleges, but Harvard did not take part. Goldin and Katz’s study analyzes a wider range of cohorts than...
...Adam M. Jasienski ’08, a Leverett House resident raised in Winthrop as a child, remembers the cultural opportunities available to him growing up at Harvard.“My favorite thing ever was Cultural Rhythms,” Jasienski says, referring to the Harvard Foundation??s February celebration of diversity. “We went every year.” “My parents took me to a lot of classical concerts too, and we went to all the Harvard museums, especially the Peabody Museum,” adds Jasienski.The community within the houses...
...each member of our Indian community, especially acting as a mentor and personal friend to freshmen. Duane knew that there were so few Indian students at Harvard. Rather than bemoan this fact, he sought to change it. He was active in minority affairs on campus, serving as the Harvard Foundation??s Student Advisory Council co-chair in 2002 and 2003. Duane explained that he served in this capacity specifically because there were so few Indians at Harvard during his SAC tenure. Since small numbers could potentially hamper the Indian voice on campus, Duane assumed an extremely active...
...Hoffman. However, others said that Cambridge and Boston are as vulnerable to damages caused by earthquakes as San Francisco because of Boston’s weak ground, not because of subterranean tectonic activity. Eva E. Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation??s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins actually amplify seismic waves. According to Zanzerkia’s research, earthquake shocks that enter this softer ground become trapped and echo around...