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...senior is an accomplished Paralympic swimmer but, as a dedicated student athlete at Harvard, is forced to limit most of her competition to the summer months. So when an invitation to compete at the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil lined up with Harvard’s 2007 summer vacation, Kolbe accepted, and in the process, captured four individual medals at the event including gold in the 50-meter backstroke...
...first came this summer at the Parapan American Games in Rio, for which she was selected captain of the women’s swimming contingent. Kolbe’s four medals helped her team surpass its 54-medal goal and, fittingly, her silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle marked the team’s 54th...
...traipse the planet, learn languages and intern in rural villages—all in the name of a “meaningful” study abroad experience. What, though, constitutes a “meaningful” abroad experience? Is it a five-week summer program in Rio de Janeiro that comes conveniently with a Harvard stamp of approval and a corresponding price...
This year’s Harvard-in-Rio program lasted five weeks and cost 5,500 dollars—a price that covers almost a full year’s rent in Brazil’s cidade maravilhosa. Students are shuffled into Pontífica Universidade Católica (PUC), Rio’s private university that caters to the city’s affluent population, meaning that the program is often devoid of the striking diversity so emblematic of Rio...
...RIO DE JANEIRO Vying for gold at the Parapan American Games...