Harvard in the World

Three rising seniors share their summer plans, all with an eye toward their futures.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to help devise design strategies along the Santa Catarina watershed to increase water security and to reduce flood risk. 

Research fellow Faiz Haque and PhD student Evan Routhier investigate how methylmercury enters the food web in the Amazon basin, where illegal gold mining has increased along the river.

Harvard Law School instructor Aminta Ossom JD ’09 and law student Taryn Shanes joined a UN forum to call for government intervention to mitigate water crises in vulnerable communities.

At the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum, Clinton Foundation co-chair Chelsea Clinton led a panel of experts in a discussion about climate change and the role educators can have in improving the lives of children living amid the impacts of a warming planet.

Harvard’s Center for International Development, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the recipients of the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting Incubation Fund, advancing innovative climate change research for developing economies on the frontlines of the crisis.

Cofounded by Viraj Sikand MBA '24, MPA '27 and Mark Tracy MPA '11, EarthAcre makes it lucrative for Indigenous communities to protect biodiverse habitats by selling "biocredits."

As a student at Harvard Kennedy School, Renata Koch Alvarenga MPP '23 partnered with the World Food Programme to develop policy recommendations for climate disaster preparedness in Caribbean island states.

Senior Katie Catulle ’24 reflects on six weeks studying abroad in Venice.

The Cummings Foundation has committed $50 million for an alliance between Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.