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...Admissions Office is in dire need for more hosts," one email said. Another urged girls in particular to help out, as apparently there is a shortage of female hosts. Yet another, which stated that the Visiting Program had its largest attendance ever this year at 1,100 prefrosh, asked students already signed up to host if they would take in more students. What better way to get a taste of Harvard's trademark overcrowding? If FlyBy had n+1 (and an unreasonable amount of time to waste), we'd totally volunteer to host...
...Harvard’s Hoffman Laboratory, Pearson and her colleagues discovered that these anaerobic microorganisms survive on iron that leaks out from the bedrock with the help of a sulfur catalyst. The microbes have adapted to the hostile subglacial environment by developing a new life cycle in which they breathe iron through sulfur...
...sestet is commonly known as the last 6 lines of a sonnet, usually demarcating a turn in thought. And though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest volume of poetry by Charles Wright, it is helpful to think of that one. As the 20th volume for the poet—a Pulitzer and Griffin Prize winner—“Sestets” marks a high point in the progress of a style of contemplation that Wright has made his own over the years.Although Wright...
...recognizes new Americans—immigrants and their children—for creativity, accomplishment, and citizenship. The winners are highly motivated, focused, and committed to a particular field, ranging from public health to foreign policy. Program Director Warren F. Ilchman said that the fellowship aims to identify leaders and help them “make the contribution they are capable of making.” That eight of this year’s 31 fellows are Harvard students did not come as a surprise to Ilchman. He said that the school writes extremely strong recommendation letters and emphasizes the opportunities...
...gave me the chance to make the film I wanted to make.” Initiated in conjunction with the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Office of Career Services (OCS), the ADF program recognizes students with extraordinary artistic promise and provides them with grants to help foster their development. The ADF, which is moderated by committee members of the Council on the Arts, is awarded to 12-15 students who represent a wide range of disciplines. “We want the opportunity to be life-changing,” says Jack C. Megan, OFA Director...