Katie Koch
Talent on the sidelines
Every spring, high-achieving high school seniors around the country play the college admissions game in the lead-up to the May 1 decision deadline. Research by Christopher Avery of HKS research shows that many poor but promising students are sitting out.
Tags: ACT, Caroline Hoxby, Center for Education Policy Research, Christopher Avery, College Admissions, Education, Harvard Kennedy School, Higher Education, Katie Koch, National & World Affairs, SAT, Strategic Data Project
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To protect, serve, mourn
The Harvard University Police Department joined thousands of colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday to pay tribute to Sean Collier, the officer slain in aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Tags: Andrew Collier, Bombings, Boston Marathon, Campus & Community, Drew Faust, Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University Police Department, In the Community, James Taylor, John DiFava, Joseph Biden, Katie Koch, L. Rafael Reif, Law enforcement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Policing, Sean Collier
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Emerging to a renewed normal
After a tense Friday that saw the campus and the Greater Boston area on lockdown, Harvard came to life again Saturday as students and visitors flooded into Harvard Square.
Tags: bombing, Boston Marathon, Campus, Campus & Community, Class of 2017, Community, Cordelia Mendez, Daniel Grafstein, Harvard Square, Katie Koch, Leah Schwartz, Nancy De Haro, On Campus
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Jazz as conversation
Artist and composer Wynton Marsalis returned to Sanders Theatre for his fourth lecture-performance at Harvard, an exploration of the strange alchemy of instinct, expertise, and empathy that jazz musicians need to “play and stay together.”
Tags: Ali Jackson, Arts, Arts & Culture, Blues, Carlos Henriquez, jazz, Katie Koch, Marcus Roberts, Music, Office for the Arts, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Sanders Theatre, Swing, Walter Blanding, Wynton Marsalis
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Strength in numbers
For Harvard’s unusually tight-knit group of faculty, student, and staff runners, the Boston Marathon was meant to be the culmination of months of teamwork and training. After Monday’s bombings, the running community pulled together for a different reason.
Tags: Alan Garber, bombing, Bombings, Boston Marathon, Campus & Community, Craig Rodgers, Daniel Lieberman, Drew Faust, In the Community, Katie Koch, Lowell House, Sarah Siskind
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A loss close to home
The Harvard community mourned the loss of Krystle Campbell, daughter of longtime HBS dining staffer Patty Campbell and sister of Cabot House dining services worker Billy Campbell, in the marathon bombings.
Tags: Alan Garber, Bombings, Boston Marathon, Campus & Community, Drew Faust, Harvard Business School, Harvard University Dining Services, HBS Restaurant Associates, In the Community, Jonathan Walton, Katie Koch, Krystle Campbell, Patty Campbell, Vigil
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On Tax Day, a step toward equality
Under federal law, same-sex couples pay taxes on spousal medical coverage that their heterosexual married coworkers do not. Starting this month, Harvard will help LGBT employees and their families offset those costs with a tax equalization payment of $1,500 a year, the University announced April 15.
Tags: Arthur Patton-Hock, Benefits, Campus & Community, Defense of Marriage Act, Harvard Human Resources, Katie Koch, Kevin Patton-Hock, LGBT, Michael Goetz, Rita Moore, Staff, Staff & Administration, Tax Equalization, Workplace
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Making this economy work
In honor of its 30th anniversary, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government brought together heavy hitters in economics and government to discuss how private and public leaders can help the United States thrive again.
Tags: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Benjamin W. Heineman, Business, Government, Government & Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Katie Koch, Lawrence Summers, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, National & World Affairs, Nina Easton, Paula Dobriansky, Politics, Roger Porter
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Hallmarks of healthy eating
The Mediterranean Diet has been lauded as a healthy eater’s dream, but it’s still a mystery to many Americans. Greek cooking guru Diane Kochilas and cardiac health expert Frank Sacks — who have worked to enhance the diet’s presence in Harvard’s dining hall menus — visited groups across Harvard last week to share insights and recipes.
Tags: Cooking, Crista Martin, Diane Kochilas, Diet, Food, Food Literacy Project, Frank Sacks, Greece, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University Dining Services, HarvardScience, Health, Health & Medicine, HUDS, Katie Koch, Marissa Grenon, Mediterranean diet, Nutrition
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‘Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit’
This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to in the working world.
Tags: Anne Ristau, Business, Drew Faust, Education, Facebook, Gender, Harvard Business School, Katie Koch, Leadership, National & World Affairs, Nitin Nohria, Robin Ely, Sheryl Sandberg, W50 Summit, Women, “Lean In
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