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...doing surgeries and other lab techniques, like putting really thin brain sections onto slides and injecting embryonic cells with needles that are 50 microns wide.” For Tischfield, ceramics have also facilitated forays into entrepreneurship and community service. Besides teaching volunteer workshops for SPARK, an after school program in Boston for inner-city youth, he works on “La Casas de Experanza,” a micro-enterprise project aimed at helping develop the slums of La Prusia, near Grenada, Nicaragua, by giving them the means to support themselves in an independent, sustainable...
...service organizations in many major cities throughout America. Many of the organizations with which CPIC is involved are small, and students would not hear of them otherwise. Last year, 76 Harvard students found summer internships through CPIC, and there is no sign that interest in CPIC’s program is decreasing...
...Another service at Harvard that deserves praise is the Institute of Politics’s Director’s Internship Program. Through the IOP, students can apply for internships in politics or public service, ranging from interning at a congressman’s offices to working for Politico. This year, a record 375 students applied for a Director’s Internship. Students clearly have an interest in working for such organizations, and the opportunities afforded to them by the IOP are commendable...
...make a great deal of money. A student with a summer internship at Goldman Sachs, for example, will receive a much higher salary than a student working for his local congressman. Commendably, Harvard has taken great steps to address this inequality. The IOP’s Summer Stipend Program offers a stipend to students working in low- or non-paying summer jobs in government, public interest groups, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, campaigns, and nonprofit groups. In addition, CPIC pays the students for whom it finds employment. Such financial assistance means that students are able to work where they want...
...Student Events Fund is an outstanding program. It allows students who are on financial aid to buy tickets to campus events that they otherwise could not afford and brings the Harvard community closer together by allowing all a chance to spend time together regardless of financial means. The new SEF website, much simpler to navigate, now makes it even easier for students to participate...