Mira M. Nalbandian
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Lessons From Lowell: How a Data Center’s Expansion Has Choked a Small Town
Less than an hour away from Harvard’s gates, a data center in Lowell, Massachusetts encapsulates the local stakes of expansion.
The School for Moral Ambition Poses an Alternative To Consulting and Finance. Will Students Follow?
The School for Moral Ambition is an organization hoping to direct college students at elite universities into careers with meaningful impacts. This past fall, they began a fellowship program aiming to counter the pull of finance and consulting. The university fellowship, exclusive to Harvard students, provides 12 juniors with a stipend of $15,000.
Could Harvard Have a Hoover Institution?
Within discussions about creating an institution like Stanford’s Hoover, Harvard faces a challenge to balance pressure from too many interests — including a dual mandate of nonpartisanship and support of conservative students.
Buildings Come ALivE at GSD
The Adaptive Living Environments project was the first time that Bechthold collaborated with bioengineers, a perspective that allowed the team to approach problems backward.
Buying Time
The Time Trade Circle is a Cambridge-based time bank that serves the Boston metropolitan area. The principle is straightforward: you complete a task for someone, and the number of hours it took to complete the task is deposited into your account. You can then “cash in” those hours whenever you want.