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...Angeles dynamics of street vending, garage sales, and vacant-lot transformations. “Even if they may appear to be trivial, they actually are significant in the way they rethink urban space,” she said. “We’ve been working on this project for 10 years, so now I’m going to sit down and write it.” Not all the winners will spend the next year authoring books. Carpenter, a professor of government, plans to spend the year collecting data in archives in the northeast and western...
Last fall, we took a junior tutorial in Social Studies that proved to be one of the defining courses of our college careers. The class, “Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Community and Power,” required each of us to design a substantial community organizing project over the course of the semester. Thanks to the course’s meticulous planning, many of us novice organizers found ourselves privy to areas that would have been inaccessible through Harvard’s extracurricular programs...
Harvard researchers and a local technology company are developing a network of weather sensors that will make the Cambridge climate one of the most closely studied in the country. CitySense, a project headed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Matt Welsh, brings Harvard researchers and BBN Technologies engineers together to create a unique wireless network that can be used for research ranging from high school projects to doctoral theses. Cambridge will be the first city to install the sensor nodes, which will be placed on or inside small boxes, on its street-light poles next year. “CitySense...
...public higher education. As a private institution, Harvard’s chance of receiving state funding is unclear.“We want to bring stem cell research to the point where it is therapeutically useful,” Zon said. “The cost of the project is very high since we are right at the beginning of the field, so state funding would be very beneficial.”George Q. Daley ’82, an associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School and a Harvard Stem Cell Institute executive...
...Operation Homecoming” takes an unconventional approach to the tradition of wartime documentaries. It’s not a political polemic opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—it’s personal.The film stems from a project, created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004, which called for writings about the war experience in Iraq and Afghanistan from soldiers and their families. The effort also held writing workshops in military camps led by such distinguished authors as Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason. Over 100 pages were sent in to the project...