Kyle L. Mandell
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Renaissance Person: Zach Halberstam
In many ways, Zach’s experience at Harvard has been negotiating between the sciences and the humanities, applying a precise mathematical mind to creative pursuits. Zach is a mathematician. He is a lyricist. He is a physicist, occasionally. He is a saxophone player. He is a stage director and staple of the Leverett dining hall.
Most House Spirit: Audrey Kang
Audrey wears many hats at Harvard, from working for Consulting on Business and the Environment to event-planning with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association. And yet, “HoCo is honestly the best thing that I’ve done,” she says, before diving into a description of her life as co-chair.
Fifteen Questions: David Yang on Chinese Authoritarianism, Political Economy, and Cookbooks
The Economics professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss his work on the political economy of authoritarian regimes in China. “There are people in China who eagerly want and fight for democracy. There are people in the U.S. who take on actions that go very much against democracy,” he says.
The Threads That Bind
I often marvel at how it must feel to move throughout the world with such lived experience — how a person can bear witness to so much history and still take to the streets every day in a plush faux-mink coat with the fervent zeal of a person eager to inhale the equally familiar and foreign sights, smells, and sounds of New York City.
Out/Laws: Student Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Rights at Harvard Law
Since its inception, COGLI has served as a center for LGBTQ+ advocacy at the Law School. The organization has spearheaded policies ranging from banning military recruitment on campus to including sexual orientation in Harvard’s non-discrimination policy. Moreover, the very existence of this group gave visibility to LGBTQ+ students at the school, allowing them to challenge homophobic stereotypes and bring LGBTQ+ life to light.
Something Worth Pfighting Pfor
During at least three separate points in the history of Harvard College, one line from the classic Harvard introduction could mean the difference between peace and war.
A Rat-Free Harvard: A Transformative Experience Awaits
I dream of a college experience where I can walk the streets of Mass. Ave without the fear of encountering one of these monstrous creatures careening toward me during a late-night CVS run. Even so, I know better than to underestimate what the rats around here are capable of, and I worry that our little friends here might be clever enough to evade the devices poised to eliminate them.
Meet Julie Fiveash, Harvard's First Librarian for American Indigenous Studies
Their position carves out a distinct space in the world’s largest academic library system to focus exclusively on organizing, spotlighting, and acquiring materials in a field that has long been neglected.
Fist-Bumping and Broom-Stacking: FM Learns to Curl
Curling, we learn, is a lot like bowling, except more complicated, played in teams, and on ice.
For Ayush Noori, Juggling Freshman Year and Neurodegeneration Research
In layman’s terms, Noori defines his work as “applying cutting-edge machine learning approaches across computer vision, natural language processing, and graphed representations learning.”