Students

Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.

A woman with a black sweater and patterned scarf stands under an archway.

Radcliffe Institute Dean Departs for Stanford

Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been named dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Megan Shutzer ’10 first traveled to Africa during her junior year; she spent a semester traveling around Tanzania on a program learning about wildlife ecology and the conservation industry. Here, she is shown near Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, where she did a homestay with a Masai family (including some of the children shown).

Megan Shutzer interviews those who fled election violence in Kenya

In a refugee camp near Nakuru, Kenya, Megan Shutzer ’10 learns that fallout from the 2007 election violence persists.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Courtesy of Elisa Nabel

Elisa Nabel makes a film about childhood and innocence in Rwanda

In Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, Elisa Nabel ’11 makes a film about childhood and innocence.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 investigated several topics, including some research that involved visiting partner organizations of the Arusha Project, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) that was hosting her as a researcher. Here, she is shown with two children who attend the Baraa Orphanage and Nursery School, whose directors are both HIV-positive.

Rashmi Jasrasaria focuses on HIV prevention and women's empowerment in Tanzania

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 focuses on HIV prevention, sexual health, and women's empowerment in Arusha, Tanzania.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The University of Ghana campus

At the University of Ghana, Audrey White studies the history of the slave trade

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Illustration by Stuart Bradford

New media transform college classrooms

Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom

by Craig Lambert

Illustration by Susan Gal

Loss and gain in dropping pre-med

A senior assesses life at—and after—college without the pre-med track.

by Melanie E. Long

Samuel Saidel-Goley (foreground) and Archery Club colleagues draw their bows.

Harvard Archery Club revival

Renaissance for the Archery Club

by Craig Lambert

Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates

Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates

Orhan Pamuk

An undergraduate ponders Orhan Pamuk's Norton Lectures

Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Spencer Lenfield listens to Orhan Pamuk’s Norton Lectures.

Seniors Kia J. McLeod (left) and Andrea R. Flores, vice president and president of the Undergraduate Council, display the banner that they presented to the class of 2013.

College class of 2013 convocation ceremony starts a new tradition

Welcoming Harvard’s “fourth College class of ’13”