Word: mayas
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...speakers also said they were also impressed with the conference. Maya M. Berry, director of government relations at the Arab American Institute, said that conferences like the IASC meet a community need by reaching students...
...National Memorial Project Foundation, who organized a design competition that has drawn 871 entries; the winner will be announced this fall. While the prize, $20,000, is small, the payoff is big; the Vietnam War memorial, awarded in a similar competition, made the career of then undergraduate student Maya...
...special concentration adviser, Cherie Wendelken, says Maya's initiative and largely self-researched and self-directed plan of study make her a standout. Maya's homemade academic mixture of cross-registered courses--as well as offerings from the history of art and architecture, visual and environmental studies, environmental science and public policy, mathematics and physics departments--was ambitious. "It's rare that somebody comes in with that kind of drive," says Wendelken, an assistant professor of the history of art and architecture...
...Maya shows no signs of stopping. These days, she is revamping her portfolio, keeping tabs on the Lakers and searching for an apartment in Cambridge. Yes, Harvard picked her, and she picked Harvard--again. After accepting her magna cum laude diploma today, she's off to the Graduate School of Design for a three-and-a-half year master's program in architecture. Maya has dreams of starting her own design firm...
...four years have taught that Harvard's rejection letter speaks truth, and the four classmates from Van Nuys High know what none of us want to acknowledge--especially today. Development and success doesn't rely on this college. For Anna, Parham, Mira and Maya, life goes on after a Harvard decision...