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...juggled all this while working as a WHRB radio host and as a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board. And she will graduate tomorrow with an array of accolades—a Hoopes Prize for her creative-writing thesis, induction into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and a George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, which will fund a year of “purposeful travel.” At the final interview for the Gardner fellowship, Klein says she squeaked, headbanged, and drummed on a table, to mixed reactions from her interviewers. “Some were...
...this, the final stretch of their lives as Harvard College students. For a select portion of the class, a last chance at one of undergraduate education’s greatest honors turned out to be their best. In ceremonies to be held today, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will acquire 91 new members, increasing the total number of this year’s PBK graduates to 163. Invitations to the honor society are first extended in the spring of every academic class’ junior year, at which time 24 inductees are named. In November, an additional...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...enlightened me with their many talents, attitudes, and viewpoints. And in those explorations with my teachers and my peers, I discovered the first hints of what I found meaningful. I realized that my definition of “doing well” could mean induction into Phi Beta Kappa, but that it could also mean learning a cultural dance whose name I could barely pronounce for Ghungroo, the South Asian dance show, or working with Undergraduate Council members to bring a student voice to the Curricular Review, or engaging in a Moral Reasoning section discussion on the justification...
...most frequent form of artistic expression might simply be tapping out rhythms on the floor with his feet, as he instinctively does throughout our interview.In addition to his involvement in music, Dam, as friends call him, is a psychology and African studies joint concentrator, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship, which provides students with funding to travel abroad after graduation. Ogunnaike grew up in a musical family: his mother studied traditional Yoruba music from West Africa in college and for her master’s degree; his father plays the guitar...