A Passport to Knowledge
A Passport to Knowledge: Kelly Brock ’11 (part 2 of 3)
Even though I’ve already been here for seven weeks, I still have moments when I look around and say, “Holy cow, I’m in Japan!” They may be triggered by walking past a little old lady wearing a full kimono ensemble, or seeing large anime advertisements (and sometimes anime characters) in the street.
A Passport to Knowledge: Jamie Danner ’12 (part 2 of 3)
Nice is as beautiful as ever. It seems as though I left Munich at just the right moment—it dropped to 13˚ C just as I left! After spending a truly wonderful weekend in London with two of my close friends from Harvard who are working there, I journeyed on to the Riviera, and boy am I happy to be here.
When David Rockefeller announced his stunning gift in April 2008, he expressed his hope that it would “help enable future Harvard undergraduates to experience similar opportunities to learn about the world in which they live.” Scarcely more than a year later, 426 students are dispersed throughout 65 countries this summer, in an exhilarating pursuit of knowledge as wide-ranging as Andean prehistory and neurobiological research.
Read »A Passport to Knowledge: Kelly Brock ’11 (part 2 of 3)
Even though I’ve already been here for seven weeks, I still have moments when I look around and say, “Holy cow, I’m in Japan!”
A Passport to Knowledge: Jamie Danner ’12 (part 2 of 3)
Nice is as beautiful as ever. It seems as though I left Munich at just the right moment—it dropped to 13˚ C just as I left! After spending a truly wonderful weekend in London with two of my close friends from Harvard who are working there, I journeyed on to the Riviera, and boy am I happy to be here.
A Passport to Knowledge: Jamie Danner ’12 (part 1 of 3)
Munich is finally warm! Summer, as it seems was the case back in the States, was particularly wet and hovering around 15˚C, which was really quite upsetting.
A Passport to Knowledge: Kelly Brock ’11 (part 1 of 3)
Japan has always seemed like a dream to me, a macrocosm of the floating world inhabited by the romanticized figures of geisha and samurai. Since elementary school, my greatest loves have been science and the possibility of learning about new cultures, particularly Japan’s.
The Lowell House bell tower welcomed a new set of Russian bells in August 2008.Harvard in the World
Jorge I. Domínguez has a dream: Harvard’s international research centers unite to address global issues. Faculty appointments and PhD student admissions are “passport-blind.”
Read »Sugata Bose: Expanding History’s Horizons
“If you want to understand the Indian Ocean,” Sugata Bose says, “you have to imagine a hundred horizons.” Over time, this vast, vibrant space “has been traversed by people of all kinds—from merchants and philosophers to soldiers and poets.”
