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...reform. This summer, six Harvard College students will tackle issues in practical ethics as the first recipients of grants sponsored by the late Harvard benefactor Lester Kissel, a 1931 graduate of the Law School. For Kelly W. Heuer ’07, the grant—which carries a stipend of $3,000—will allow her to travel to Beijing to research Chinese philosophy on justice and individual rights. “It’s really great to think that I will be working this summer in such uncharted territory,” wrote Heuer, a Cabot...
...have had successful academic experiences are best qualified to advise freshmen in choosing classes and concentrations, getting the best education from their professors and teaching fellows, and making the most of their Harvard education. The potential to pick just such successful students is vastly improved by the $1,000 stipend, which has led to a huge spike in applicants. Unfortunately, the apparent patronage employed in selecting some of them may dilute this potential...
Peer advising fellows, who will each receive a $1,000 stipend, are to serve as informal academic advisors as well as entryway community-builders to groups of 10 freshmen. At a Committee on Undergraduate Education meeting on Friday, Assistant Dean for Academic Planning Inge-Lise Ameer said that each freshman will be assigned to three separate peer advising fellows—one student from humanities, sciences, and social sciences. (See story, above...
...meet their advisee group weekly and to offer extracurricular and college-life advice. Some advising fellow applicants said that when forced to choose between several extracurricular activities, the prefect program had been the first to be relinquished. But they said the new program’s $1,000 stipend persuaded them to apply. “I looked into the prefect process,” said Owais Siddiqui ’06. “But I found that in addition to extracurriculars...I would not have the time.” “Now that it?...
...Xavier Del Rosario ’09 received the class awards. In addition, Ugo Nduaguba, a local senior at John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Roxbury was granted the Black Men of Achievement Scholarship Award, which comes with a $1,000 stipend. The ABHW also presented John Hope Bryant with the Vanguard Award, a tribute presented to a distinguished black male outside the Harvard Community who is “selfless, dedicated, and service oriented,” according to Tiffanye Threadcraft ’07. Past winners have included talk show host...