March 1, 2006

Harvard in India

The Harvard Alumni Association’s Global Series conference “The Power of the Idea: An Academic Symposium Exploring Outreach in South...

From The March-April 2006 Issue

The Harvard Alumni Association’s Global Series conference “The Power of the Idea: An Academic Symposium Exploring Outreach in South Asia,” takes place in New Delhi on March 25 and 26.

The event features University president Lawrence H. Summers, five deans, and several faculty members, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and prominent alumni, such as Surat Singh, president of both the Harvard Club of India and the Harvard University Alumni Clubs of Asia.

For registration and details on the event, visit https://post.harvard.edu/harvard/globalseries/html/index.html.

Published in the March-April 2006 print issue in the Alumni section.

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