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PRISE provides students who conduct research over the summer with Harvard faculty with free housing and meals, and administrators hope to extend the opportunity to social science concentrators...
...program may be the only one of its kind among colleges across the nation because of its unique focus on social science research, according to PRISE director Gregory A. Llacer, who will also be spearheading plans for BLISS as head of the newly created Office for Undergraduate Research Initiatives established this February...
...development of BLISS was encouraged by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, who, according to Llacer, has said she wanted to create a “substantive informative research experience” available to all undergraduates...
Though psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji said she had not heard of the program, she quipped in an e-mail that “the program indeed sounds like bliss to me given the struggle we face finding summer research support for our concentrators each year...
Banaji said she believes that many students who would otherwise choose to do research over the summer miss out on the opportunity because of the prohibitive costs of living in Cambridge...