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A sweet arrival in Allston
Amid a throng of local residents, festive decorations, and even a professional alpine horn player, Michael and Fereda Falk said they’d been looking forward to the Allston opening of Swissbäker for...
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The quest for common ground
Asked to define the concept of “cultural citizenship” at a panel convened to explore that question, Yo-Yo Ma ’76, cellist and artistic director of the Silk Road Ensemble, pointed to an unexpected...
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Houses become homes
Bundled up against the morning chill, tourists in Harvard Yard blinked in befuddlement as Currier House upperclassmen in green bathing suits cheered wildly as they raced a brisk victory lap past...
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Gardner reaps the rewards
A crowd of more than 100 teachers, school leaders, children, parents, Allston-Brighton residents, and Harvard University officials recently gathered at the Harvard Business School to encourage support...
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The dark side of chocolate
Back in January, as she headed to teach the first class of her new undergraduate course, “Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food,” Harvard College Fellow Carla D. Martin wondered whether it...
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Where the research takes you
On any given day, informal conversations between public intellectuals are taking place on the Harvard campus — but often behind closed doors. Those doors were flung open Tuesday as Steven Pinker,...
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View from the Porch
A sea of daffodils created a sunny wave of yellow just outside the Harvard Science Center on the newly completed plaza. The flowers decorated framed “remembrance boards” that were erected so members...
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The tools of art
Bob Alexander, a lifelong Bostonian, has lived on the same street in Allston all his life. Now that the Harvard Allston Education Portal has come to his neighborhood, he said, he and his wife, Paula,...
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Innovation in the arts
A crowd of Harvard faculty members and alumni judges watched intently Thursday as a College student, a Loeb fellow, and three students in the Graduate School of Design declared that the days of art...
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Recognizing exceptional women
In 2012, when a journalist asked the White House about Israeli authorities withholding SAT exams intended for Palestinian students in the West Bank, it was a question that had been prompted by an...
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Challenge met
MatriTarg Laboratories, a venture created by a team of Harvard fellows seeking new ways to diagnose and treat solid organ fibrosis, claimed the grand prize — and $40,000 in award money — in the...
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Embracing the magic of science
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. All her life, Jennifer Cloutier ’13 wanted to understand how things work. “When you’re a kid, basic mechanisms like...
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Joy by the Yard
Enemy of disease The presentation of honorary degrees includes short biographies read by Provost Alan Garber. Brief as they are, these often contain interesting notes about the recipients. During...
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Sharing a love for science
In the Harvard Science Center, hundreds of Cambridge eighth-graders gasped in amazement as they watched liquid nitrogen violently and instantaneously transform from a boiling liquid to a frozen solid...
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A beacon of community
Standing next to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Charlesview Apartments at Brighton Mills in Allston Friday, Angela Holm drew on...
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Motivation through mentors
When Harvard College’s Vanessa Decembre ’16 advised a room of local high school students to “never sell yourselves short,” sophomore Chris Raymond was paying close attention. Raymond, who attends...
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The story deepens
At East Boston’s McKay School, Brianna Guilford led her class of tin men, cowardly lions, Dorothys, and scarecrows into the sunlight. “We’re reading ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,’ the original story,...
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Paws to refresh
On the Science Center Plaza, delighted passersby spent time at a small petting zoo, taking time out to caress and pat the rabbits, ducklings, piglets, and kittens. Nearby, a friendly therapy dog had...
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A new community, a new era
As Harvard President Drew Faust rose before a host of elected officials, community leaders, Allston residents, and Harvard affiliates to discuss “the very important role that Barry’s Corner will play...
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A sampling of college
Educators from Cambridge’s public schools voiced their approval as Suzanne Bouffard, a researcher and writer with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), spoke about the galvanizing power of...
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A gallery grows in Allston
In the exhibit space at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, Shannon Wright, a sculptor from Savannah, Ga., stood before one of her creations, a sculpture of a bear capturing a salmon. Both were...
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Cultural Revolution comes to Allston
When Peter K. Bol was in college, a revolution halfway around the world changed his life. In 1966, Bol began to study modern China — the same year that the Cultural Revolution occurred. “All of a...
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Boston Shines, thanks to many hands
Max Ritter is not yet 2 years old, but he’s already a veteran of helping Allston “shine.” “I came with him last year and carried him in my backpack,” said his mother, Gabrielle Ritter, herself a...
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Artful balance
In speaking at Harvard about “dOCUMENTA (13),” Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the exhibit’s artistic director and the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, found...
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Finding their voices
“Adult education has improved our lives,” said Waleska DeSouza as she stood before a crowd at the Charlesview Community Center in Allston-Brighton. “We can look for jobs, express our feelings and our...
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‘Puzzling out’ Paul
At the time when the apostle Paul was writing the letters that would become some of the earliest texts in the Christian scriptures, the world was “full of gods … almost a forest of statues,” according...
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Experiments in learning
During a recent visit to James W. Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain for a science fair, Carlos Brambila recalled the lasting impact a similar fair had on him. When he was in grade school in...
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A circle completed
Aldel Brown grew up just a 20-minute drive from Harvard’s campus, but attending the University seemed like distant possibility. Yet this year Brown — who regularly describes himself as “just a kid...
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HarvardX course closes in on global view
For Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and director of the South Asia Institute, aspiring entrepreneurs could learn a lot from the Kumbh Mela. Held every 12...
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Discovering ‘detectives’ of science
Walking through a sea of young students crowding the stage of Science Center B, Howard Stone neatly created order out of chaos, pairing children as he passed. “We need an A here,” called out the...
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Earning a bachelor’s degree the new way
Jonathan Haber earned his bachelor’s degree, in chemistry, from Wesleyan University in 1985. Nearly three decades later, he decided to earn another bachelor’s, this one in philosophy. He also resolved...
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A new office, a global audience
Appointed as the vice provost for advances in learning at Harvard last September, Peter Bol is responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, and a new collaborative...
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The mystery of Mahler
Speaking to an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Federico Cortese, senior lecturer on music and director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, wondered why Americans have such a unique relationship...
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Scholarship of things
Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s...
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Disabilities, pushed to the side
Thomas Hehir, Ed.D. ’90, the Silvana and Christopher Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), spent much of his career helping...
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A brighter future together
Students from nine Boston Public Schools gathered recently at the Harvard Ed Portal to discuss their possible futures. Two in particular saw few limits. “First, I want to engineer the fastest car in...
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Science, on the edge
In the Science Center at Harvard University, two eighth-grade students from Cambridge’s Rindge Avenue Upper School suggested different paths for the future of genetic engineering. Luka Berman argued...
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Getting to know the lab
Before a Harvard crowd of 50 — faculty members, graduate students, and scientists — Sam Ingersoll demonstrated the soft robotics manta ray wing he developed using 3-D design. “Soft robotics have...
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Art that interrupts
Walking through level one of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, visitors these days are immersed in a visceral, dynamic experience. Created by Shahryar Nashat, an exhibit titled “Skins and...
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Ebola outbreak: A system that failed
Between 1976 and 2012, Ebola outbreaks claimed approximately 1,600 lives. But the most recent outbreak of 2013–14, which consumed the coast of West Africa and spread to the U.S. and Europe, claimed...
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Exploring paths to college
In a 2014 speech titled “The Case for College,” Harvard University President Drew Faust encouraged high school students in Dallas to consider the long-term benefits of college. “As early 20th-century...
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Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried sees contracts in every aspect of daily life. “When you get into a taxi, that’s a contract,” he said. “You don’t have to sign a piece of paper; you don’t...
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Professor shares the simplicity behind daily changes
Speaking to a full house at the Harvard Ed Portal, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor Donald Goldmann challenged his audience to be curious about how they execute everyday tasks, to...
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A place where startups begin
This venture was clearly an investment in the future as Harvard Business School (HBS), the Harvard Ed Portal, and the Harvard i-lab presented 30 local high school students front-row seats to how...
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A course that keeps teaching
Data Wise, a new HarvardX course, is transforming classroom dynamics and building “collaborative inquiry” between teachers — both in and beyond the Boston Public Schools (BPS). With more than 14,000...
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Trash becomes treasure, becomes art
Except for a small piece of paper, Konstantin Simun might have worked with oil and canvas rather than the sculptures for which he is internationally known. Originally hoping to be a painter, Simun was...
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A different view of the universe
Yeilanise Noriega, a sixth-grader at Jackson/Mann K-8 School, recently experienced a course that changed her world perspective exponentially — so much so that she is now convinced life exists on other...
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Pediatric physician Lisa Wong said that the connection between medicine and music is not new, but has existed for centuries. Wong, a violinist and past president of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra...
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Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana
It’s been eight years since Massachusetts voters decriminalized the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. On Tuesday, they’ll decide whether to tax and regulate the sale and adult consumption...
View ArticleA ceremony celebrates Harvard Heroes
In Sanders Theatre, a venue often associated with thoughtful reflection, a packed-to-the-rafters audience joyfully shouted and screamed on Monday, with people rising to their feet for an extended...
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