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Sandra Ullman: Dialogue between the head and the heart

Sandra Ullman was pining for her younger brother and sister as she ambled around an extracurricular activities fair at the beginning of her freshman year at Harvard four years ago. She was drawn to...

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Kennedy School’s Greer aims for real change in city schools

When a friend asked Jacqueline Greer to become a volunteer mentor for city middle school kids, she agreed only reluctantly. After working with the kids a short time, however, their education became her...

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Phillips Brooks House welcomes first fellow

With its long tradition of service and community involvement, the Phillips Brooks House (PBH) — composed of the Phillips Brooks House Association, the student-run, public service organization, and the...

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Kip Kitur ’09 plans to head home to help

While growing up in the Rift Valley Province in western Kenya, Kipyegon A. “Kip” Kitur milked goats and fed cattle before running to school. It was two miles away, uphill, past steep maize farms. After...

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Public service gets personal

This is what the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) is all about, said HKS Dean David Ellwood of a Sept. 2 public service program. “It’s about service, it’s about making the world a better...

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‘Call of Service’

At 13, Geoffrey Canada knew that he had to help save himself and that, if he could, his life would be about saving others. A product of the rough and tumble South Bronx in the 1950s, the Harvard...

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Making a difference

It was a mini-reunion of sorts on Thursday (Oct. 22) as the U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan ’87 participated in a discussion on public service with Harvard...

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Geoffrey Canada’s good works

For Geoffrey Canada, the path to salvation began with “Green Eggs and Ham.” A committed first-grade teacher, who refused to give up on her disengaged student, caught his attention by connecting him to...

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Harvard mobilizes relief fund

Harvard University will create a relief fund for faculty and staff who have been directly affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The University’s executive vice president, Katherine N. Lapp,...

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Relief for Haitian city

Sebastian Velez, an assistant resident dean at Harvard’s Kirkland House, is a graduate student in biology who studies arachnids. But after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, he put spiders aside, and...

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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...

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HLS creates public service fund

Harvard Law School today (Feb. 9) announced the creation of the Public Service Venture Fund, which will start by awarding $1 million in grants every year to help graduating students pursue careers in...

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A bridge to somewhere

Bady Balde’s path to Harvard University began at age 4, on a six-mile trip along a dusty, rural African road. Alone. It’s the reason he’s a good runner. Balde recalled trying to catch two older,...

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The road to Khelshala

It was in the works for months, years even — a trip that finally turned dreams to reality as the Harvard varsity women’s squash team traveled to India over January’s winter break. Harvard allows its...

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Donations that make a difference

Carmelite Delvas saw more than she could bear. The Harvard employee, a native of Haiti, rushed to her devastated homeland after the massive earthquake to search for her 79-year-old mother, who uses a...

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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...

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Rolling up their sleeves

NEW ORLEANS — It was just past noon on Monday (March 15) when Clifton Dawson ’07 steadied himself on an aluminum stepladder.  Ahead of the former Crimson running back was a task more daunting than the...

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A 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...

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The ripple effect

Judith Dollenmayer ’63 was in the first class at Radcliffe College to receive Harvard degrees. And she was the first woman president at the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. Now, the former...

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In their words

Clifton Dawson '07 Clifton Dawson ’07 Gentilly, New Orleans I thought it would be a great chance to get back to do something for this community and to regain that affiliation with Harvard. To be a part...

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