Elizabeth Gudrais

Features | May-June 2010

The lab led by Nicholas Christakis examines networks from all angles.

The lab led by Nicholas Christakis examines networks from all angles.

Right Now | January-February 2010

Work-life balance hard on women in finance

Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.

Right Now | January-February 2010

Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese

Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.

Features | November-December 2009

Institutional factors have eased the way for Harvard students to go abroad.

Institutional factors have made it easier for Harvard students to go abroad.

Oluwadara Johnson ’10 organized a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls last summer in Ibadan, Nigeria. Here, she picks up the girls from a meeting point to bring them to the site of the camp.

| November-December 2009

Oluwadara Johnson runs a performing-arts-themed camp for girls in Nigeria

In her home city of Ibadan, Nigeria, Oluwadara Johnson ’10 runs a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls.

In Nganyahun village, a Red Cross volunteer and a community leader who work with GMin teach residents how to put up bed nets.

| November-December 2009

David Sengeh combats malaria by distributing bed nets in rural Sierra Leone

Combating malaria by distributing bed nets in Sierra Leone

| November-December 2009

Christopher Higgins works at an orphanage in Busia, Uganda

A short-term stint volunteering at an orphanage in Uganda turns into much more.

In Nairobi’s Kibera slum last August, Elizabeth Nowak ’10 worked with residents to build prototypes of VertiGrow, a vertical planter she designed with classmates in a Harvard course.

| November-December 2009

Elizabeth Nowak brings vertical agriculture to Nairobi's Kibera slum

Working with local residents to bring vertical agriculture to Nairobi’s Kibera slum

Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Features | November-December 2009

Harvard students volunteer in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

| November-December 2009

Grace Ryan films a documentary on mental-health care in Ghana

Grace Ryan ’10 films a documentary on mental-health care, and the debate over reform, in Accra, Ghana.

The Harvard team: Darryl Finkton ’10, Sangu Delle ’10, and Ndu Okereke ’10

| November-December 2009

Sangu Delle brings clean water to the village of Agyementi, Ghana

In Agyementi, Ghana, Sangu Delle ’10 brings clean water to a village.

Megan Shutzer ’10 first traveled to Africa during her junior year; she spent a semester traveling around Tanzania on a program learning about wildlife ecology and the conservation industry. Here, she is shown near Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, where she did a homestay with a Masai family (including some of the children shown).

| November-December 2009

Megan Shutzer interviews those who fled election violence in Kenya

In a refugee camp near Nakuru, Kenya, Megan Shutzer ’10 learns that fallout from the 2007 election violence persists.