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- Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Professor Heidi Vollmer-Snarr’s students in CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology headed to Washington D.C. to take science advocacy from theory to practice. Learn more about this cohort’s research and their experience with engaged scholarship!…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Student Advisory Committee AY24-25!
Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Program’s Student Advisory Committee (SAC)! Bring people together to ask big questions, create the intellectual community that drew you to Harvard, and gain practical experience around developing workshops and curriculum! …Continue Reading Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Student Advisory Committee AY24-25! - Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.
How can students talk about climate change in a way that sparks action, innovation, and change? This spring, a handful of students in GOV 1318, a new course titled “The Great Food Transformation,” took a fresh approach…Continue Reading Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It. - Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover
On 50th anniversary, former prisoners, activists recall when inmates ran prison without incident during guard strike The topic proved painful, even explosive. In fall of 1972, inmates at the state prison in Walpole, Massachusetts, peacefully organized themselves…Continue Reading Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover
Featured Stories
Yasmin Issari ’16
To know that Harvard is prioritizing the public service field, providing students with the financial and institutional support to grow and learn as they follow their ambitions to address society’s most pressing issues, is empowering.
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Sally Chen ’19
I had never known how gratifying it could be to see the tangible impact of public service work until I began volunteering with PBHA Chinatown Citizenship.
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Dr. Andrew Clark
Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer in Music
Implementing an Engaged Scholarship approach to teaching proved to be a … transformational experience, opening up new possibilities for inquiry and holistic learning.
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Student Work
- Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical BiologyProfessor Heidi Vollmer-Snarr’s students in CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology headed to Washington D.C. to take science advocacy from theory to practice. Learn more about this cohort’s research and their experience with engaged scholarship!…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- MUSIC 14 Sings Together
Cambridge Common Voices (MUS 14: Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum – Oh Be Swift / Do You Hear What I Hear…Continue Reading MUSIC 14 Sings Together - Course Spotlight: The Other Russia
A Harvard Engaged Scholarship Project at the Jewish Community for the Elderly In the fall semester of 2017, Harvard students of Professor Stephanie Sandler’s “Slavic 189: The Other Russia: Twenty-First Century Films, Fictions, States of Mind” visited the…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: The Other Russia - Course Spotlight: Students in Service and Leadership at Harvard
This online Scalar book “Students in Service and Leadership at Harvard” features a collection of student multimedia essays developed in the course SOCIOL1130 Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education offered at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: Students in Service and Leadership at Harvard - Course Spotlight: Ecological Crisis: Witnessing and Planning in the Age of Climate Change
The members of Expos 20: Ecological Crisis – all first-years at Harvard – chose to enroll in an Engaged Scholarship course. That means they volunteered for the extra workload of a course oriented toward the community, including…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: Ecological Crisis: Witnessing and Planning in the Age of Climate Change - Course Spotlight: The Psychology of Women
How does being a woman affect our behavior, our evaluations of ourselves, and our interactions with others? This course examines psychological science on women and girls in western industrialized societies, addressing such topics as gender stereotypes, girlhood,…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: The Psychology of Women - Student Work Spotlight: Tyler Morris
Tyler Morris | Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 This knit project represents the two worlds of Spanish speakers and English speakers coming together in the network of bilingualism, uniting us all together in a cohesive, intertwined…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Tyler Morris - CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Chem 100R is a project-based synthetic, physical organic, and chemical biology research course, where students conduct, present, and write about cutting-edge, faculty-derived research. Students also learn to communicate about the broader applications of their research to nonscientific…Continue Reading CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Student Work Spotlight: Alejandro Eduarte
Alejandro Eduarte – Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 My podcast involves the intersection of Latinx music, history, and music-therapy strategies for mental health improvement….Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Alejandro Eduarte - Student Work Spotlight: Henry Villarreal
Henry Villarreal | Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 My project is made to have the Mexica (the indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico) Mother goddess, Coatlicue, in the form of the Virgen of Guadalupe (La…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Henry Villarreal - Student Work Spotlight: Sophie Kim
La ciudad de Nashua Sophie Kim Spanish 59: Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Sophie Kim - Ellie Taylor | Sociology 1130: Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education
52 student interns, many belonging to marginalized groups, are employed through internship programs at four offices under the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion branch of the Harvard College Dean of Students Office. This project explores student perception of…Continue Reading Ellie Taylor | Sociology 1130: Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education - Student Work Spotlight: Stephanie Tang
Spanish 59: Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 This project draws inspiration from the theory and imagery of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to depict the the idea of los intersticios, a space that individuals…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Stephanie Tang - Student Work Spotlight: Will McConnell
El Aniversario | Spanish 59: Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 Este historia trata del estrés que la amenaza de deportación puede crear en inmigrantes sin papeles, y debe expresar el costo humano del practico deplorable de…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Will McConnell - Student Work Spotlight: The State of COVID-19 Periods
The State of COVID-19 Periods Olivia Tai and Sienna Santer, Spring 2020 COVID-19 puts undue pressure on women experiencing homelessness. Women are more likely than men to live in poverty and face the burden of “period poverty,”…Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: The State of COVID-19 Periods