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...Bankolé, who deserves to be called something more evocative, like "He of the Supreme Cheekbones." His first set of marching orders - he gets many - are to "go to the towers, go to the cafe and look for the violin," and his employer sums up the theme of his mission as "Reality is arbitrary." In today's economy, who is going to complain about a boss with a tendency to wax philosophical...
...schools. “Each of the programs is important within its community. There’s an element of social change in meeting these kids’ needs and helping the members of these communities empower themselves by being allies to the residents,” said former Mission Hill SUP Director David V. Jenkins ’03. “That is how you build a community’s power.” A sense of continued presence in the communities was the theme of the night. In her opening remarks, Dean of the College Evelynn...
When what is now the Harvard Kennedy School was founded seven decades ago, its chief donor sought a school to educate future leaders in government.To this day, the School’s mission statement charges it “to train enlightened public leaders and to generate the ideas that provide the answers to our most challenging public problems.”But as increasing numbers of graduates enter the private sector—because of debt concerns or pressure from corporate recruiting—some students have concluded the School has fallen short of its lofty aim.In...
...When asked what he thinks the sexiest thing about working on computers is, he laughs: “We don’t really talk in superlatives.” As the instructor for Computer Science 50, Harvard’s introductory Computer Science course, Malan is on a mission to catapult computer science to the forefront of students’ academic interests. “He has this motivation to enroll as many people as possible into the course,” says head teaching fellow and former student A. Cansu Aydede ’11. The CS50 fair...
...this news, we do not believe that such ranking systems capture the full scope of the student experience,” she said. “Like all our peers, we are constantly striving to improve and augment educational and research opportunities in order to better fulfill our mission.” The medical school came in 15th in primary care. The business school was able to take sole ownership of the top spot after tying with Stanford last year. “It is great that Harvard was ranked so highly in the survey, as any time your school...