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How to engineer change
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an occasional series of stories on the measures that individual Schools at Harvard are using to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Harvard’s School of Engineering...
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Nurturing the seeds of innovation
In business, one well-prepared conversation can change everything. Rebecca Kantar ’14 knows how that works. During a trip to Silicon Valley with other Harvard students, she sat down with a mentor to...
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Engineering a better life
When Kathy Ku ’13 proposed to build a water-filter factory in Uganda for $15,000 last year, her contacts in other African countries advised her to double her budget. Starting from scratch on a plot of...
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When engineering meets art
Music blared, LEDs blinked, and jaws dropped Tuesday at the SEAS Design and Project Fair, a celebration of creative problem-solving by students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
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Leaders or followers?
All that work by helicopter parents to whip their children into Ivy League shape is a fool’s errand that perpetuates a flawed educational caste system where high-achieving “zombie” students train...
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A wellspring of hope
The relief in Pinalito is palpable. The water is clean again. For the past 2½ years, students in the Harvard University chapter of Engineers Without Borders have been rehabilitating and improving a...
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