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...where it’s at. But not all grants are created equal, and not all programs are as easy to work. Even for a pro like Kwong, Harvard’s complicated thesis research grant program proved difficult to navigate. Over 30 different institutions at Harvard offer thesis research grants to undergraduates, and although a common application exists, it isn’t widley used. Students must provide extensive supplementary materials—in addition to the standard transcript and letters of recommendation, applicants are required to submit a proposal and budget that detail exactly what they intend...
...realm of possibilities that I would ever stop working on my thesis,” she said. “I don’t even know what that would be like.” She took a brief break from final editing last night to offer advice to younger students interested in writing. “I went to Dubai, which is what made it all worth it,” she said. “If you’re going to write a thesis, at least try to get a trip...
...that students even wrote to him asking to serve on the committee. Dowling added that the committee will invite every interested undergraduate to contribute to the review by commenting, and at least one of the UC’s original selections plans to take Dowling up on the offer. Ellora A. Derenoncourt ’09 said a few weeks ago after she found out that she was not invited to serve on the committee that she still planned to participate in the review somehow. In addition to Dowling, the other faculty members on the committee include Dean of Freshmen...
...procedures of the Administrative Board. Despite the UC’s efforts to have a say in the selection process, the College ultimately rejected the idea of having any undergraduate other than Sundquist serve. At a UC meeting on March 10, Sundquist told the Council that he had been offered a seat on the committee. After two rounds of UC discussion and a vote, Sundquist accepted the committee’s offer Tuesday morning. “We’re very pleased that they have decided to put a student on the committee,” Sundquist said yesterday...
...philosophy that can be just as divided as anything in Christianity or Islam, but he has decided after analytical research that when he finds himself out in the wider world talking to large audiences of people with no interest in Buddhism, the most practical course is just to offer, as a doctor would, simple, everyday principles that anyone, regardless of religion (or lack of same), might find helpful. Since material wealth cannot help us if we're heartbroken, he often says, and yet those who are strong within can survive even material hardship (as many monks in Tibet have...