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When she arrived at Harvard, Eskander participated in the service-oriented Freshman Urban Program (FUP). She also served as a FUP leader at the start of her senior year. At FUP she says she learned that service is a two-way street...
Following his selection of Rubin, now a director at Citigroup, Summers again turned to an old colleague from his time in Washington: Robert D. Reischauer ’63, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the Urban Institute, a non-profit think tank in the nation’s capital. Reischauer speaks Summers’ figures-based language, and his appointment in 2002—as a replacement for the short-lived Enron director Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65—made...
...students—Ellen Chen, Eric Ho, Nour Jallad, Rick Lam, and Ying Zhou—conceived of their plans before the April entry date of the competition, which was sponsored by MIT’s Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS) and open to Cambridge-based designers...
While he was publisher of the Gainesville Sun, a daily newspaper covering life in north and central Florida, Harrison grew interested in a local movement, led by the League of Women Voters in Gainesville, to secure federal urban renewal funds in order to revitalize the poorest sections of the city...
Nonetheless, the campaign for urban renewal funds was ultimately successful. Thousands of housing units were built, and the slums were demolished...