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From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...
Nowak has balanced pursuits both inside and out of the undergraduate bubble. Independent of the College, for example, she joined the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital. This past summer she traveled to Sudan with Brett D. Nelson, a pediatrician at MGH. Originally brought along to coordinate logistics and gather data, by the end she was teaching courses in newborn resuscitation...
...made equally good use of the opportunities she found in her classes. In the fall term of 2008, she took Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences.” Then, in the summer of 2009, she took her final project for the class—a vertical farming system designed to help the urban poor in Africa, called “vertigrow”—to Kenya, and she plans to continue work on it between graduation from Harvard and medical school...
When Andre U. Akpan ’10 donned the whites of the U-20 U.S. National Soccer Team for the first time, he was a member of a squad composed nearly entirely of professionals. He started against Haiti and scored three goals, one on a header. That summer, he played in the U-20 World Cup in Canada, helping the U.S. advance to the quarterfinals. At this point, he had played with and against some of the best soccer talents in the world. He had also just finished his freshman year at Harvard...
These accomplishments provide a foundation for what could be a new American approach. Last summer, Fayyad announced that - instead of waiting for political negotiations to reach a final agreement on a Palestinian state - he would simply work to build the institutions of such a state right away. His aim was to create conditions that within two years would convince the world, including the Israelis, that the entity should be granted statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a similar approach. He wants to provide both sides with security by building the Palestinian economy, and he has lifted some...