Three to receive HAA medals
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2007 Harvard Medal: Phyllis Keller B.F. ’70, Carl H. Pforzheimer III A.B. ’58, M.B.A. ’63, and Richard Menschel M.B.A. ’59....
View ArticleKnowles memorial set for May 30
A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held May 30 at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and...
View ArticleHarvard: Leadership through service
Harvard fosters a culture of community service that embraces those who study, teach and work here. An essential component of today’s Harvard education is the call to serve the greater community, both...
View ArticleAndover’s Rousmaniere teaches soccer in Africa
For Andover’s Adam Rousmaniere, life simply has a different meaning now. “When I got home, everything seemed different,” he said. “It was difficult to readapt. You look at things here and you think,...
View ArticleThe Lost Student
I met him the year before I left the Mississippi Delta — my second year as a Teach for America member in Phillips County, Ark., one of the poorest counties in the country. Patrick had flunked eighth...
View ArticleAround the Schools: Harvard Law School
Hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the School’s Pound Hall for a “Thanksgiving for the Troops” event on Nov. 18 to raise money and collect items for soldiers...
View ArticleA church rises again
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — One afternoon this week, George Thampy ’10, a chemistry concentrator, joined four other Harvard undergraduates on a low scaffold at a nearly completed church in this small...
View ArticleA key player on the field and off
Ask Melissa Schellberg ’10 why she is so passionate about community service, and she won’t give you a calculated plan or vision for change. She’ll keep it simple. “I’ve always liked helping people,...
View ArticleTeach for America taps talent
More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join the ranks of Teach for America this fall, making the University among the nation’s top contributors to the national nonprofit education program....
View ArticleSlowing down to see more
During my time at Harvard, I have heard many conversations about learning. Most recently, I listened to professors at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching symposium swap ideas on methods...
View ArticleFamily values, in an orphanage
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Sonya Soni, her Hindi relatives have long maintained, just might be her great-grandmother reincarnated. It’s not...
View ArticleDonovan receives Coles Award
“We celebrate public service and its importance to this University,” Harvard President Drew Faust told an audience of 200 students, faculty, staff, and alumni, at the Memorial Church on Friday....
View ArticleHarvard’s graduates, aiding others
“It is a fundamental purpose of the modern research university to develop talent in service of a better world. This commitment is at the heart of all we do,” said Harvard President Drew Faust during...
View ArticleFinding HARMONY
Walking through a labyrinth of orange hallways to a practice room in Paine Hall, saxophonist Mariah Goldsmith, a ninth-grader at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, fine-tunes the details of her...
View ArticleHAA honors 3 alumni with Harvard Medal for service to the University
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced that Robert Coles ’50, Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78, and Alice “Acey” Welch ’53 will receive the 2018 Harvard Medal. First awarded in 1981, the...
View ArticleAfter two gap years, Harvard student aims to build a life in service
Kevin Ballen didn’t plan on taking two gap years. But he did intend to live a life less constrained by society’s expectations. “In high school, my goal was to shift civic engagement from transactional...
View ArticleBreaktime Café prepares, delivers meals amid pandemic
Connor Schoen and Tony Shu were just weeks away from opening Breaktime Cafe, their job-training initiative for youth experiencing homelessness, when the pandemic hit. They knew they had to do something...
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