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Just months after expressing interest in the project, Murphy was on a flight to Rwanda with Alda Ly and Marika N. Shioiri-Clark, two other architecture students at the Design School, to do research for a potential hospital in the country’s Butaro district. In Rwanda, they found blueprints that included rooms with poor ventilation and dim lighting, both of which are ideal conditions for the spread of tuberculosis...
...House to the “quaint” walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week, University Hall announced that Harvard would embark on a $1 billion, 15-year renovation of its undergraduate...
...this preceded Harvard’s expansion to the banks of the Charles River—the Allston project of yore but with fewer low-income housing projects in the way. Adams House opened in 1935, and Quincy made its arrival down the street at the height of the modernist architectural movement of the 1950s, which explains why the House looks like a ski lodge...
...that we have begun to see results, and new enough that they are innovative.” This year, six of the 50 programs come from Massachusetts. These efforts include the City of Boston’s Foreclosure Intervention Initiative and Suffolk County’s Teen Prostitution Prevention Project. Ruston F. Lodi, director of public affairs at the Massachusetts Housing Partnership and a contributor to the MassDocs project, described the program as “an example of government being efficient.” The initiative promotes affordable housing in Massachusetts by creating one set of loan documents...
...relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand the project to Boston later this year. In D.C., Ebrahim said he placed three of his graduate students in three different nonprofits: a meal program, a drop-in center, and a housing service for domestic violence victims. Ebrahim said he focused his work on homelessness because it raised unique problems, including...