Bhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and...
View ArticleAround the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
A group of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will give the gift of literacy this holiday season while on a service-learning trip to Caluco, El Salvador. The students recently...
View ArticleBreak, but no vacation
The year-old boy had been abandoned at a rural hospital in Uganda’s poorest district. His mother, who showed up days later after a change of heart, was just 17 herself and told the Harvard students...
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A Salvadoran snapshot
As a teenager in Iowa, Briget Ganske discovered the magic of photography through a camera she borrowed from her grandparents. Now she has infected Salvadoran youth with her photographic bug. Ganske...
View ArticleSocial change at ground level
Called to volunteerism by his “restless interest in social change,” Scott Ruescher is modest when discussing how each Thursday he heads to the Amigos School in Cambridge to relate stories to his...
View ArticleFaust emphasizes public service
The academic year that draws to a close today saw renewed emphasis on public service across Harvard. In her Commencement address, President Drew Faust underscored the University’s mission to serve the...
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Beyond mourning
Alma Guillermoprieto wandered a drought-stricken town in El Salvador, cattle carcasses poking from the dirt. “It was so poor, so poor, so poor,” she says with a wince, telling the story now....
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The price of women’s immigration
After it was over, the nightmares came: the sound of the thundering train, and the threat of gangs — including Los Zetas, Mexico’s most infamous cartel — that loomed at every turn. Sometimes the...
View ArticleBhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and...
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Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
A group of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will give the gift of literacy this holiday season while on a service-learning trip to Caluco, El Salvador. The students recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Break, but no vacation
The year-old boy had been abandoned at a rural hospital in Uganda’s poorest district. His mother, who showed up days later after a change of heart, was just 17 herself and told the Harvard students...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Salvadoran snapshot
As a teenager in Iowa, Briget Ganske discovered the magic of photography through a camera she borrowed from her grandparents. Now she has infected Salvadoran youth with her photographic bug. Ganske...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Social change at ground level
Called to volunteerism by his “restless interest in social change,” Scott Ruescher is modest when discussing how each Thursday he heads to the Amigos School in Cambridge to relate stories to his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Faust emphasizes public service
The academic year that draws to a close today saw renewed emphasis on public service across Harvard. In her Commencement address, President Drew Faust underscored the University’s mission to serve the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond mourning
Alma Guillermoprieto wandered a drought-stricken town in El Salvador, cattle carcasses poking from the dirt. “It was so poor, so poor, so poor,” she says with a wince, telling the story now....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The price of women’s immigration
After it was over, the nightmares came: the sound of the thundering train, and the threat of gangs — including Los Zetas, Mexico’s most infamous cartel — that loomed at every turn. Sometimes the...
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Harvard professor reflects on life, canonization of Óscar Romero
The day before a gunman shot him in the heart as he celebrated Mass, Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero gave a powerful homily in which he urged soldiers to cease in the killing that was engulfing his...
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How the pro-life movement became entrenched in El Salvador
The cases are harrowing, and they keep accumulating. El Salvadoran women and girls who give birth to stillborn babies are originally charged with abortion, and then ultimately sentenced to decades in...
View ArticleHarvard dean joins public health partnership
Migrants are arriving at the nation’s southern border in record numbers, fleeing violence and looking for what they hope will be a better life in the U.S. Overwhelmed by scale of the arrivals, the...
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How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
Pregnant patients in El Salvador, who, under the nation’s abortion ban, had no choice but to carry fetuses with severe malformations to term, experienced high rates of maternal morbidity, according to...
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