School volunteers honored with Mack Davis Award for 50,000 hours of service
At a special reception on May 14, Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) honored nearly 900 volunteers who served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2007-08 academic year....
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$100,000 in grants available for community projects
The second round of Harvard Allston Partnership Grant Funds totaling $100,000 are now available to community members and nonprofit groups to help support neighborhood improvement projects, cultural...
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Minds in the making
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. That’s the guiding principle of the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI), which seeks to...
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Early marijuana use a bigger problem
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown that those who start using marijuana at a young age are more impaired on tests of cognitive function than those who start smoking at a...
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Aid groups that make a difference
Staff members at Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center have noticed an influx of homeless families this year. With the economy still skittish and the weather only getting worse, center officials...
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Beyond the school day
The end of the school day doesn’t mean the end of learning for Boston children and teens, thanks to after-school programs run by Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). For more than two...
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Caring voices
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) today (July 26) released a powerful video in support of the It Gets Better Project. The four-minute video features faculty, staff, and students sharing...
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Putting local youth to work
For Bill Cain, assistant director of recruitment services for the Office of Human Resources, the bar for Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program is pretty high. And he couldn’t be happier about...
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Experience for a lifetime
Seven teens. Seven distinctly different stories. One common experience. For many teens, having a summer job means more than just a paycheck. It means a chance to develop real-world skills — how to...
View ArticlePod-based e-cigarettes may foster greater nicotine dependence
JUUL and similar pod-based e-cigarettes’ efficient delivery of nicotine may foster greater dependence than other types of e-cigarettes, according to a new study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public...
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Using AI to reduce the risk of HIV
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that one of the most important weapons in the fight against any disease is accurate information — and trusted individuals within a community to disseminate it. How to...
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Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids
Hurricane Katrina caused widespread destruction and more than 1,800 deaths in 2005, much of it in New Orleans. Though a tragedy, psychologists recognized the storm and its aftermath provided an...
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Why are young people so miserable?
Twenty years ago, life satisfaction surveys of those 18 and older showed the highest readings among America’s younger and older adults, with those in between struggling with jobs, families, and other...
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