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...again. At least that was the message behind an event at Winthrop House last night in which two House residents discussed the results of genetic testing that traced their roots to distant, and in one case unexpected, corners of the globe. Pedro Jorge Gomes Castelo-Branco, a Winthrop House tutor of Portuguese descent, and House Master Mandana Sassanfar, whose family is from Iran, presented the result of the tests as part of a race and diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population.” The pair had sent cheek swabs...
...most direct fashion—leaving Cambridge to apply their education in their respective cities, states, or countries. But many other students, both American and not, are exploring other ways to plug the drain.GOING HOME WITH A MISSION Mariam O. Fofana ’06, a Quincy House tutor and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a member of the brain gain movement in its most classic sense. Originally from the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire, she attended high school in Minnesota and concentrated in Biology at Harvard...
...crowded shuttle bounded closer to the Quad I reverted to my natural Texan drawl, filled with lots of “mama’s” and “ain’ts” and some elongated vowels that could make my English tutor faint...
When it was announced, the new sophomore advising system appeared to be plagued by potential pitfalls. Our biggest worry was that resident tutors, who would be assigned to sophomores who have not yet declared their concentration choice, would not be good primary advisers if their expertise did not match the interests of their advisers. Yet the new system appears to be a qualified success. In particular, it provides readily available advising resources—resident tutors and knowledgeable upper-classmen—in a wide variety of fields to initiative-taking students. That’s not to say that...
Midway through its first term, the revamped advising system for sophomores is getting high marks from House masters, tutors, and some students. Now that undergraduates don’t have to settle on a concentration until their third semester, the program targets sophomores just getting acquainted with the rhythms of upperclass life. Resident tutors are now expected to help sophomores pick an academic field to make the focus of their years at Harvard. “I’ve seen a lot of programs and initiatives and things come and go during my time at Harvard, and this...