The GSAS Bulletin HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SEPTEMBER 2015 VOLUME XLV, N o . 1 MARTHA STEWART HARVARD INFORMATION Dean’s Getting to Know Harvard and the Metro Boston Area P. 2 Welcome I am delighted to welcome you to the Graduate ADVICE FOR School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard INCOMING University. You have been chosen to join our student ranks from more than 13,000 applicants STUDENTS because of your talent, motivation, and intellectual What I wish I’d known P. 3 curiosity—qualities that have enabled GSAS to develop a dynamic global community of future visionary scholars, innovative educators, and STUDENT creative leaders. RESOURCES Established in 1872, GSAS offers the PhD and Where to go for what you need P. 4 a select number of terminal master’s degrees in 56 departments, programs, and divisions; it is the only school at Harvard that grants the PhD. Seventeen of HARVARD those programs—known as interfaculty programs— MAP are offered in conjunction with professional schools at A guide to the Cambridge and Harvard, such as Harvard Medical School, Harvard Boston campuses P. 8 Business School, and Harvard Divinity School. In addition to connecting with other parts of Harvard, GSAS students form an important bridge between undergraduates in Harvard College and the Faculty, serving as teaching fellows in the classroom and participating in residential life as tutors and proctors HARVARD while working with professors to advance research and knowledge. RESOURCES GSAS is a community dedicated to diversity. We are the most international school at Harvard, How to access what you need P. 10 with 34 percent of our students hailing from abroad. Our Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs recruits and mentors a community of students that reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of our global society. We connect our students with groups and resources designed to help you find PROFESSIONAL communities on campus that nourish your individual interests. This publication will help you learn more about your new academic home and introduce DEVELOPMENT you to the key people within GSAS that can help you navigate your time at Harvard. While you Develop the skills to succeed P. 11 will spend most of your time working within your specific department or program, our staff can help you access broader student resources, professional development opportunities, and FREE extracurricular activities. Don’t forget to review Resources for GSAS Students, which you will find in your Orientation folder, to learn more about academic, counseling, and other resources. TIME Whatever your area of study, you have embarked on a challenging and rewarding journey, and The Extracurricular Guide to all of us at GSAS are ready to help you make the most of your time here. Welcome to Harvard! Grad School P. 12

GSAS Xiao-Li Meng CALENDAR Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences A fall term sampler of events P. 15 Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics

SEPTEMBER 2015 I GSAS BULLETIN 1 ➽ ➽ HARVARD ADVICE FOR INFORMATION INCOMING STUDENTS Getting to Know Harvard and the Metro Boston Area What I wish I’d known

◗ DOWNLOAD THE HARVARD APP ◗ TRANSPORTATION Want to view a Harvard map? Find the contact information Whether you are based in Cambridge, the Longwood Medical Area, or Starting life as a GSAS student is an exciting time, but one with many unknowns. Here are for a faculty member? Check Harvard shuttle route the Allston part of Boston, numerous transportation options exist to some tips from students with a year under their belts. information? Get answers to these questions and more on help you get from point A to point B. the Harvard Mobile App, available through the iTunes store Harvard Transportation and Google Play. Harvard Shuttle Buses cover the Cambridge and Allston campuses. Sa-Kiera Hudson ◗ Details at shuttle.harvard.edu. The M2 Longwood Medical Shuttle takes WHERE IS GSAS? students, faculty, and staff between Cambridge and the Longwood Medical GSAS is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard Area. Details at masco.org/directions/m2-cambridge-harvard-shuttle. University’s largest division. The FAS also includes Harvard College, the Route information is also available through the Harvard Mobile App. For John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Division information about accessible van and evening van services, visit of Continuing Education, and libraries and museums. GSAS offices are in www.transportation.harvard.edu/shuttle-van-services. three locations: Public Transportation University Hall, Harvard Yard The MBTA, also known as “The T,” helps residents and visitors get around Dean’s Office—3 North, 617-496-1464 the Metro Boston area via a network of subways, buses, and commuter Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, rail trains. GSAS students can purchase a CharlieCard that provides 1350 Massachusetts Avenue access for an entire term at an 11 percent discount. Forms are available Student Affairs and Financial Aid—3rd floor, 617-495-1814 and in your Orientation folder or on the GSAS website at gsas.harvard.edu/ 617-495-5396 current_students/mbta_semester_pass_program.php. Visit mbta.com for schedules and maps, rider tools, and more. Dudley House, Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard Bicycling Student Services and Residential Life—Room B-2; 617-495-5005 Bicycling is a great way to get around Cambridge and Boston, and both Dudley House Administration—3rd floor; 617-495-2255 cities have invested in making roadways safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and Yueran Ma ◗ motorists. The Hubway bike share system also allows you to commute to and THE HARVARD CAMPUS from Cambridge, Boston, Brookline, and Somerville without having to own Harvard University consists of eleven separate academic units—ten a bicycle. For more information on how to get started and navigate the area, schools plus the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses ◗ YUERAN MA, SECOND YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT ◗ SA-KIERA HUDSON, SECOND YEAR GRADUATE visit www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transportation/gettingaroundcambridge/ located throughout the Boston metropolitan area comprising over IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS STUDENT IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY bybike and www.bostonbikes.org. 5,000 acres. While the main campus, University administration buildings, and the schools of design, divinity, education, and law are located in Cars Start thinking about your research Make time for yourself Cambridge, Harvard Business School and some athletics facilities, Owning a car in the Metro Boston area can be challenging. If your residence Don’t just focus on classes: make sure you go to research seminars All work and no play actually make you less productive! Work-life balance including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the doesn’t come with off-street parking, make sure to review parking rules and as much as possible. After all, our mission is to become producers of is important and isn’t something that magically happens; you have to Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public regulations on the website of the city you live in and monitor when street knowledge, so it really helps to start thinking about research questions work on it. During my first semester I started spending more time on my health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. GSAS students have cleaning takes place: you will need to move your car or it will be towed. and participating in the discussions as soon as possible. work and less time talking with family and friends. I thought I was doing connections with all of Harvard’s eleven academic units. Living car-free is easier than you’d think, thanks to the multiple Harvard the right thing but I actually became less productive, more stressed, and You can view an interactive Harvard campus map at map.harvard.edu or and public transportation options. If you need a car, Zipcar and Don’t worry if you come from outside the US more anxious. Try to find the right balance for you. through the Harvard Mobile App. Enterprise CarShare offer hourly rates on rentals, with vehicles of nearly I didn’t feel there is anything different about being an international every size located at strategic spots throughout the area. student—Harvard makes life quite easy for us, and there are so many Cut yourself some slack Visit zipcar.com/crimson and enterprisecarshare.com to learn more. resources around to support our endeavors. Just enjoy what you do and Don’t forget you are a first year! As a first year, you can make mistakes feel like you are at home. and not know things. It’s normal. It’s literally the definition of a first year graduate student. Don’t be surprised by complexity TIP: GET TO KNOW MY.HARVARD, THE STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM The biggest surprise for me was discovering how multidimensional Work hard, but celebrate your achievements The student information system my.harvard is the go-to place for managing your research is. It requires a long list of skills—it is not just about thinking My biggest surprise is how much I’ve accomplished in my short graduate student experience. You can browse classes and take care of course through the research questions (which by itself is non-trivial), but time here. Graduate school is naturally a marathon. There are some registration, update your personal information, and view grades, bills, and more. also about collaboration, communications, time budgeting, balancing concrete milestones but mostly it means coming in and working on a planning tools help you map your academic career, and you can use my.harvard to between different objectives and priorities, etc. I think we will all learn million projects that all make incremental progress. I learned to take engage your advisors and monitor progress toward your degree. this gradually and get better with experience. time to celebrate that progress, academically, professionally, and Visit my.harvard.edu to get started. mentally. Remember, it’s these incremental steps that ultimately lead to resounding graduate success. PHOTOS: TONY RINALDO TONY PHOTOS:

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Whatever your STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE OF OFFICE OF DIVERSITY area of study, you RESIDENTIAL LIFE AND MINORITY AFFAIRS The Office of Student Affairs have embarked on ensures the welfare of graduate The Office of Residential Life An environment of inclusivity is a challenging and students and monitors their assists full-time graduate students central to GSAS’s mission and rewarding journey. academic and registration status, in exploring their options for is essential to maintaining the progress to degree, and discipline. both on-campus and off-campus intellectual excellence of Harvard Along the way, you may The office also administers petitions housing. The office oversees the University. The goal of the Office need assistance with and applications for readmission administration of the four GSAS of Diversity and Minority Affairs and nonresident status. residence halls, the Dudley Meal is to recruit, mentor, and support academic or personal Jacqueline (Jackie) Yun, director of student services, and staff assistant Plan, and summer conference a community of scholars that issues, and the GSAS ◗ CONTACT Janet Daniels help GSAS students who housing. The Office of Residential reflects the ethnic and cultural John McNally, assistant dean, and staff Garth McCavana, have concerns but don’t know where Life also oversees the hiring, diversity of our society. assistant Matt Wallace administer staff is available to help to start. the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences Dean for Student Affairs training, and supervision of program. you navigate Harvard’s resident advisors. Finally, the ◗ CONTACT Patrick O’Brien, office helps students with Sheila Thomas, Associate resources. Assistant Dean of Student Affairs STUDENT SERVICES off-campus housing issues by Dean for Academic Programs HARVARD INTEGRATED Elizabeth Perten, The Office of Student Services providing information on options, and Diversity, LIFE SCIENCES Staff Assistant assists students by connecting moving companies, bed and [email protected] Christina Tucker, them with resources and helping breakfasts, and storage facilities. Stephanie Parsons, Assistant Harvard Integrated Life Staff Assistant them to strategize and problem Director of Diversity and Minority Sciences (HILS) is a federation ◗ CONTACT of Harvard life sciences PhD solve. The office supports Cynthia Verba (right), director of the Affairs, [email protected] Richard A. and Susan F. Smith student leaders, graduate student Ashley Skipwith, FELLOWSHIPS Fellowships Office, and staff assistant programs, departments, and Holly Salter, Staff Assistant Campus Center groups, and departmental Director of Residential Life Elizabeth Perten advise graduate subject areas that facilitates Cynthia Verba, director of the students in their search for fellowship cross-disciplinary academic 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, graduate student organizations. Patty Collyer, Staff Assistant Fellowships Office, advises funding and provide help with Richard A. and Susan F. Smith and research collaboration, Suite 350 Contact Jackie Yun if you have professional development. Resources for Janet Daniels, Staff Assistant graduate students on their Campus Center GSAS Students Phone: 617-495-1814 questions about student life supports student mobility, and fellowship proposals, as well 1350 Massachusetts Avenue E-mail: [email protected] or need counseling and other Dudley House room B-2, Lehman encourages extracurricular as a range of issues concerned Suite 350 Resources for GSAS Students provides www.gsas.harvard.edu/current_ support services, have academic Hall, Harvard Yard participation by its students, with professional development. Phone: 617-495-5315 information on the support you can students/current_students.php or personal concerns, or want to Phone: 617-495-5060 faculty, and staff members. It access during your time as a graduate Elizabeth Perten, staff assistant in E-mail: [email protected] discuss issues and policies related Fax: 617-496-5169 brings together the unparalleled student. Find it in your Orientation the Fellowships Office, provides www.gsas.harvard.edu/ folder, stop by the Office of Student Below, Garth McCavana (far right), dean to sexual and gender-based E-mail: expertise of Harvard’s faculty and critical support as students prospective_students/diversity_ Services (Dudley House, room B-2) for for student affairs, Patrick O’Brien, harassment. [email protected] the abundance of its resources a hard copy, or read it online at gsas. assistant dean of student affairs, and engage in the follow-up steps at_gsas.php across the life sciences disciplines, staff assistant Christina Tucker are gsas.harvard.edu/current_ ◗ CONTACT harvard.edu/current_students/what_ of applying for funding. Cynthia fueling innovative collaboration, to_do_if_you_need_help.php. available to help students. ◗ CONTACT students/residential_life.php Cynthia Verba, Director of the Verba meets with students for world-changing breakthroughs, Jacqueline (Jackie) Yun, Fellowships Office individual counseling sessions and and incomparable opportunities Director of Student Services offers group workshops as well. Elizabeth Perten, Staff Assistant for students. Janet Daniels, Staff Assistant The office administers the major GSAS fellowship competitions, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith ◗ CONTACT Dudley House room B-2, working closely with the staff of Campus Center John McNally, Assistant Dean Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard the Office of Financial Aid in the 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Phone: 617-495-5005 implementation of fellowship Suite 350 Matt Wallace, Staff Assistant E-mail: [email protected] awards. See the Professional Phone: 617-495-1814 gsas.harvard.edu/current_ Development section on page 11 E-mail: [email protected] Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center students/student_services_office. for information on fellowships for gsas.harvard.edu/current_ Sheila Thomas, associate dean for php the early years. students/fellowships_office.php academic programs and diversity, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Suite 350 Ashley Skipwith, director of residential Stephanie Parsons, assistant director life, and staff assistants Patty Collyer of diversity and minority affairs, and Phone: 617-495-9500 and Janet Daniels help students explore staff assistant Holly Salter recruit E-mail: [email protected] housing options. and mentor students from groups underrepresented in PhD programs. gsas.harvard.edu/hils PHOTOS: TONY RINALDO TONY PHOTOS:

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DUDLEY HOUSE THE GRADUATE STUDENT Judith Mehrmann, SOCIAL SCIENCES Alison Van Volkenburgh, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID assistant director of financial aid officer, and staff CENTER financial aid, Tracey The GSAS Financial Aid Office works closely with students to address Newman, officer in Emily Burns, assistant director assistants Tawnya Charters and Located in Harvard Yard, Dudley any financial barriers they may encounter in their pursuit of graduate the natural sciences, of financial aid, and staff assistants Caitlin Weaver, help students in the House is the student center for The Harvard Graduate Student education at Harvard. In addition to providing assistance with typical and staff assistant Tawnya Charters and Caitlin departments of: GSAS students and for a small Council (GSC) advocates for graduate Maggie Dunphy help students. student costs, the financial aid officers are a valuable resource students based in the Weaver help students in the community of Harvard undergrad- when unexpected expenses arise, assisting with personal financial natural sciences. departments of: ◆ American Studies uates. Dudley offers intellectual, management and helping identify potential sources of additional ◆ Architecture, Landscape social, and recreational oppor- HARVARD GRADUATE support. Students are encouraged to contact the office with any ◆ Anthropology Architecture, and Urban Planning tunities planned by the Dudley STUDENT COUNCIL finance-related questions or concerns. ◆ Education ◆ Government Fellows (GSAS student leaders) for ◆ Health Policy ◆ History of Science For a complete overview of the policies and procedures that govern all students affiliated with Dudley The Harvard Graduate Student ◆ History ◆ Psychology financial aid at GSAS, access “Financing Graduate Study” online at House. Activities include dinners Council (GSC) advocates for ◆ Human Evolutionary Biology ◆ Regional Studies–Russia, www.gsas.harvard.edu/prospective_ with faculty members, a classic film graduate students in academic, ◆ Middle Eastern Studies Eastern Europe, Central Asia students/financing_graduate_study. series, outings to museums and administrative, and residential ◗ ◆ Chemical Physics ◆ Political Economy and ◆ Social Policy php CONTACT restaurants, student-run musical matters for the GSAS. Through ◆ Division of Medical Sciences Government ◆ Sociology ensembles, and athletic and public elected representatives and Bob LaPointe, ◆ Molecular and Cellular Biology ◆ Public Policy service opportunities. As dean for admissions and financial aid, committee members, the GSC Mohan Boodram oversees the Office of Assistant Director of Financial Aid ◆ Organismic and Evolutionary ◗ CONTACT Dudley House is also home to gives shape to the voice of Financial Aid. The office includes three Lisa Simpson, Biology Alexander Kent, financial aid Emily Burns, Café Gato Rojo, the Dudley Café, assistant directors who each lead a team the student body as it works Financial Aid Officer ◆ Systems Biology officer/special students and Assistant Director of Financial Aid several meeting rooms, a game to improve the graduate that serves a specific set of GSAS programs. They and their colleagues are ready to assist visiting fellows officer, andKaren Alexander Kent, Financial Aid room, and a library. experience for all. Jillian Deibold, staff assistant students with any questions about financing Tracey Newman, financial aid Lounsbury, staff assistant, help Officer/Special Students and The GSC also awards graduate study. Jake Gray, staff assistant officer, and staff assistantMaggie special students and visiting ◗ CONTACT Visiting Fellows Officer grants to students for travel Dunphy help students in the fellows as well as students in the Jim and Doreen Hogle, and research, sponsors GSAS Richard A. and Susan F. Smith departments of: departments of: Alison Van Volkenburgh, House Masters student organizations, and HUMANITIES Lisa Simpson, financial aid Campus Center ◆ Astronomy Financial Aid Officer 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Susan Zawalich, Dudley House hosts events throughout the officer and staff assistants Jillian ◆ Earth and Planetary Sciences ◆ Business Economics Tawnya Charters, Staff Assistant Suite 350 Administrator year on topics of concern to Bob LaPointe, assistant director Deibold and Jake Gray help ◆ Engineering and Applied ◆ Economics students in the departments of: Phone: 617-495-5396 Karen Lounsbury, Staff Assistant Jeff Chenette, Staff Assistant graduate students—from of financial aid, and staff assistants Sciences ◆ Organizational Behavior professional development to Jillian Deibold and Jake Gray E-mail: ◆ Mathematics Caitlin Weaver, Staff Assistant Dudley House, 3rd floor, crisis management. provide assistance for students in ◆ Classics [email protected] ◆ Physics Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard the departments of: ◆ East Asian Languages and gsas.harvard.edu/current_ ◆ Statistics Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Phone: 617-495-2255 ◗ CONTACT Civilizations students/financial_aid.php Campus Center BELOW: Emily Burns (second from left), ◆ ◆ Germanic Languages and ◗ 1350 Massachusetts Avenue E-mail: [email protected] Executive board e-mail: African and African American CONTACT assistant director of financial aid, Alison dudley.harvard.edu PresidentHarvardGSC@ Studies Literatures NATURAL SCIENCES Van Volkenburgh, financial aid officer, Suite 350 gmail.com ◆ Celtic Languages and Literatures ◆ Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Judith Mehrmann, Assistant staff assistant Caitlin Weaver, Alexander Phone: 617-495-5396 [email protected] ◆ Comparative Literature ◆ Near Eastern Languages and Judith Mehrmann, assistant Director of Financial Aid Kent, financial aid officer/special E-mail: [email protected] director of financial aid and staff students and visiting fellows officer, and SecretaryHarvardGSC@ ◆ English Civilizations Tracey Newman, Financial Aid staff assistants Tawnya Charters and gsas.harvard.edu/current_ ◆ assistant are gmail.com ◆ Film and Visual Studies Regional Studies–East Asia Maggie Dunphy Officer Karen Lounsbury. students/financial_aid.php TreasurerHarvardGSC@ ◆ History of Art and Architecture ◆ Religion available to assist students in the Maggie Dunphy, Staff Assistant gmail.com ◆ Linguistics ◆ Romance Languages and departments of: www.gsc.fas.harvard.edu ◆ Music Literatures Richard A. and Susan F. Smith ◆ Biological Sciences in ◆ Philosophy ◆ South Asian Studies Campus Center Dental Medicine ◆ Slavic Languages and Literatures 1350 Massachusetts Avenue ◆ Biological Sciences in Suite 350 Bob LaPointe, assistant director Public Health Phone: 617-495-5396 Housemasters Jim and Doreen Hogle of financial aid (center right), Lisa ◆ Biophysics (right), staff assistant Jeff Chenette, E-mail: Simpson, financial aid officer (center ◆ Biostatistics and administrator Susan Zawalich left), and staff assistants Jake Gray and [email protected] ◆ Chemistry and Chemical Biology oversee Dudley House, GSAS’s graduate Jillian Deibold help students based in gsas.harvard.edu/current_ student center. the humanities ◆ Chemical Biology students/financial_aid.php PHOTOS: TONY RINALDO TONY PHOTOS:

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◗ BUREAU OF STUDY COUNSEL GSAS is dedicated to helping students access the The Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) supports Harvard students in professional development opportunities that will prepare them for their first their academic life and learning. The BSC offers resources to help you job after graduate school and for what they will be doing five years afterward. approach your intellectual and creative work with strategy, skill, and Though your graduate career is just beginning, you can still get to know the spirit; to make difficult choices about your time and your priorities; to offices and resources that will help you during your time at Harvard. conduct yourself with integrity and honor; to develop a sense of voice and authority in your scholarship, relationships, and leadership; to ◗ THE DEREK BOK CENTER FOR TEACHING AND work well and play well with others; to discover what leaves you feeling LEARNING enlivened and engaged; and to make meaning of your work and your Teaching is a central part of many GSAS students’ graduate programs. experiences. To learn more, stop by the BSC office at 5 Linden Street or The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is here to help you visit bsc.harvard.edu. become a better teacher! We provide resources, programs, and support for both new and experienced graduate student teaching fellows Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies— across the disciplines. We do this through our annual Fall Teaching ◗ FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE EARLY YEARS Fall 2015 Sessions Conference, as well as through a variety of workshops, seminars, and EXPLORE THESE EARLY-STAGE FELLOWSHIPS TO BOLSTER YOUR CV The Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies helps students other professional and scholarly development offerings. Visit bokcenter. There are a number of post-baccalaureate fellowships specifically read more purposefully and selectively with greater speed and harvard.edu to learn more. focused on students in the early stages of graduate study. Deadlines comprehension. Topics include: come soon for these fellowships—for complete details, visit the ◆ CONTACT Graduate Guide to Grants, at www.gsas.harvard.edu/fellowships. You ◆ reading with your eyes and your mind ◗ GET TO KNOW THE HARVARD LIBRARY Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning can make an appointment to receive advice on how to write a winning ◆ reading with a question The Harvard Library—the largest academic library in the world— Science Center 316A, One Oxford Street proposal by calling the GSAS Fellowships Office and its director, Cynthia ◆ understanding the structure of text includes 18.9 million volumes, 174,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 Phone: 617-495-4869 Verba, at 617-495-1814 (see page 5 to learn more about the Fellowships ◆ overviewing and subvocalizing million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 56 million archived Fax: 617-495-3739 Office). ◆ summarizing web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. As E-mail: [email protected] ◆ anticipating and intuiting a GSAS student, you have direct access to all of these amazing resources, bokcenter.harvard.edu National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships ◆ remembering what you read plus databases and e-resources that will help you conduct your research. www.nsfgrfp.org ◆ zooming out: navigating longer texts ◗ OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES ◆ zooming in: close reading Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Tips to Get Started The Office of Career Services (OCS) offers a wide range of services and ◆ reading with authority sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm 1. Check out “The Library Grad Guide” at guides.hcl.harvard.edu/ resources tailored specifically to the needs of master’s and PhD students. US Department of Education Foreign Language and gradguide. September 14 to September 18 Graduate students often receive help from their departments with academic Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. job searches. However, OCS offers much in the way of additional preparation 2. Get to know your department’s library liaison. All FAS departments www.gsas.harvard.edu/current_students/graduate_flas.php (tailored for non-native English readers) to help ensure success in today’s competitive job markets within the have one—a librarian who can help you identify resources in the libraries September 28 to October 9 academy and beyond. Advisors work confidentially with GSAS students The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate and devise research strategies for classes, term papers, theses, and Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on a wide range of career-related issues, from broad self-assessment Fellowship Program dissertations. September 28 to October 9 and decision-making to specific advice on resume, CV, and cover letter www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellowships/fellowshipaward.aspx 3. Learn to use the two library websites: Monday through Friday, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. preparation for academic and nonacademic job searches. The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate hcl.harvard.edu and lib.harvard.edu. You’ll find a wealth of information, It’s never too soon to get to know the OCS staff and attend their Cost to GSAS degree candidates: $25 ($150 general) Fellowship Program (NDSEG) including hours, locations, links to HOLLIS (the online catalog) and events—see what’s on offer by visiting ocs.fas.harvard.edu/calendars and ndseg.asee.org Advance registration is required. Visit bsc.harvard.edu for registration online databases (such as JSTOR and Web of Science), and applications selecting the GSAS tab. and more information. American Association of University Women (AAUW) for library services like Interlibrary Loan and requests from the Harvard International Fellowships Depository. ◆ CONTACT www.aauw.org/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/ Laura Stark, Director of 4. Apply for a study carrel. Make the library your research base. international-fellowships Career Advising and Programming for Master’s and PhD Students The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans 5. Learn to use library research guides. Harvard librarians create a www.pdsoros.org/competition variety of research guides to assist you in your work, ranging from guides [email protected] for first-time library users to subject and course-specific guides. Heather Law, Assistant Director, ◗ For other Harvard Resources that can help you Graduate Student and PhD Advising ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS 6. Save time, get savvy. Learn to use research tools like Citation Linker, make the most of your graduate education, check Many departments and programs offer innovative professional out “Resources for GSAS Students.” Find it in your [email protected] the LibX toolbar, and citation management tools. Learn to use the free Orientation folder, stop by the Office of Student development activities for their students. Talk with your department or scanners and the free (and extremely time saving) Scan and Deliver Services (Dudley House, room B-2) for a hard copy, or 54 Dunster Street program administrator or director of graduate studies for information Resources for read it online at gsas.harvard.edu/current_students/ service. GSAS Students Heather Law and Laura Stark offer Phone: 617-495-2595 about events and classes that can help you prepare for your post- what_to_do_if_you_need_help.php. advice on career-related issues. ocs.fas.harvard.edu/gsas-advising graduate career. 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◗ EAT the area. When the weather’s and a breezy terrace down at Let’s face it, by the second week good, check out the rotating Shays Wine Bar (58 JFK Street). of the semester you will stop selection of food trucks up by Central Square’s Green Street going grocery shopping entirely the Science Center and kick back (280 Green Street) is one of the and start eyeing the ramen aisle on Harvard’s impressive lawn best bars in Cambridge, and if at CVS. Stay strong and visit one furniture. you’re looking to diversify but of the numerous terrific dining the expert bartenders of Drink options in and around the Square ◗ DRINK (348 Congress Street) in South instead! Even in the wee hours, If you dress up beforehand, may- Boston seem like an impossibly distant mirage in the desert of you can honor your stomach be the beautiful people at PARK and your Cambridge pride by (59 JFK Street) will assume your graduate-school life, head heading for pizza at Pinocchio’s you’re from the business school to Brick & Mortar (567 Massa- (74 Winthrop Street). The self- like everyone else. Forget how chusetts Avenue), which is every bit as excellent. Be prepared for conscious hipness of Clover to tie a Windsor knot? Charlie’s a wait, but the expertly crafted Brooklyn Boulders (7 Holyoke Street) can get a Kitchen (10 Eliot Street) is home bit tiresome, but the barbeque cocktails and small, rich dishes to an egalitarian mix of punk Technically the law school’s, classes. There’s a pool at FAS’s seitan and unexpectedly good will soon make you forget your rockers and locals there for the Hemenway Gymnasium (1515 Malkin Athletic Center (39 egg-and-egg pita sandwiches troubles. cheap drinks and delightful lob- Mass. Avenue) is the best gym Holyoke Street), and if dis- are well worth tracking down an ster(ish) melts. Russell House for graduate students of all tance running is your thing, the iPhone-toting employee willing Tavern (14 JFK Street) has a ◗ EXERCISE disciplines, with a convenient, Charles Riverbank is a scenic, to take your order. The breakfast convivial basement, friendly Okay, so far you’ve just been compact facility, ample cardio hallowed, Haruki Murakami— egg sandwich also can’t be bartenders, and probably the drinking and eating—time to machines, and an entire base- and Junot Díaz—approved loop. beat. With a cheap lunch menu best beer menu and cocktails make sure you can still pack a ment of free weights, not to If you’re looking to live life a bit and half-price dinner specials, If you ended up at Harvard, chances are your undergraduate experience nearby. There’s a cozy cave punch with the best of them! mention excellent group fitness more on the (cliff) edge, join the (89 Winthrop consisted of cooking ramen in an electric kettle so you didn’t have to waste Grendel’s Den ranks of the intrepid climbers at Street) outpaces even Clover for Brooklyn Boulders in Somer- time going to the dining hall. In the worst case scenario, you got scurvy and the title of Harvard Square’s best ville (12A Tyler Street). Whether gained enough weight to no longer be recognizable to your loved ones. In the gustatory value. you’re an expert climber or a The cool kids have been lining best case scenario, you read your textbooks on the treadmill and occasionally complete beginner who needs up on Manhattan’s Upper West ventured to the Chipotle across the street from campus. Surely there must to learn the ropes (literally), Side for years to get into be a third way. Here’s a guide for how to survive, and even thrive in, the next Shake you’ll find everything you need Shack (92 Winthrop Street), and half-decade or so of your Harvard life. Story by Lusia Zaitseva n Photos by Lulu Liu there, including parkour classes Harvard Square boasts its very to help you get around campus own branch. If your cholesterol in the fastest way possible. ◗ deal in the Square. If you need the hip, European crowd is spikes after eating all those CAFFEINATE Those gates are clearly meant to buckle down and get work attracted to Café Pamplona burgers and you’re in the mood Gato Rojo in the basement for climbing. of Dudley House is a cozy done somewhere not everyone (12 Bow Street) as much for its for something healthier, Cafe and convenient source of knows your name, 1369 (1369 excellent cappuccinos as for its Sushi (1105 Massachusetts inexpensive MEM teas and Cambridge Street and 757 authentically slow service. Avenue) has some of the best ◗ ESCAPE dependable coffee and Massachusetts Avenue) is the cuts of raw fish around, and the If the above hasn’t lured you out pastries. If you can get past quirky pride of the Cambridge generous teriyaki bento box is to Inman and Central, hopefully the Harvard gates (are they community, and The Biscuit just $13. Head to Punjabi Dhaba this will. Don’t miss Toscanini’s keeping someone out, or us (406 Washington Street), (225 Hampshire Street) over in (899 Main Street) or Christina’s in?), the crowded-for-a-reason where the roads leading to Inman Square and experience Ice Cream (1255 Cambridge Café Crema (27 Brattle Street) Harvard, Porter, Inman, and the splendors of the Indian Street): the fresh mint and roasts a hardy cup of George Union squares converge, roadside restaurant, or north a kulfi flavors at both are creamy Howell Coffee, and the $1.75 offers all the low price coffee few blocks and you’ll end up at perfection. For your cultural English muffin with butter refills your heart rate can Thai Hut (93 Beacon Street), kicks, the Isabella Stewart handle. Closer to campus, Café Pamplona and jam may be the single best arguably the best Thai food in Grendel’s Den Gardner Museum (280 Fenway)

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right by the Longwood Medical ◗ BRUNCH ◗ UNWIND (45 Quincy Street, in Memorial ◗ FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 Fall sports pub ◗ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 ◗ MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Area (get there for free on the Arguably the most important By now you’re well fed and fit, Hall) or downtown’s Symphony Discover Dudley GSAS Cookout Senior Common Room Dinner 7:00 p.m.–midnight, Dudley House game room 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., University 5:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. M2 shuttle!) will have you feeling part of the week, brunch with just a bit of a sugar high. Hall (301 Massachusetts Avenue). Dudley House Museum Lawn, Oxford Street Dudley House Graduate Student like you just flew to Europe for deserves its own category. Time to amass us some cultural At the opposite end of the musical ◗ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Get to know your graduate Lounge and Common Room the afternoon. Lose yourself in Plough and Stars (912 capital. Head to the Somerville spectrum, the third floor of the Resumes & Cover Letters ◗ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 their serene garden and follow Hong Kong restaurant (1238 Mas- student center at this always- 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m., Massachusetts Avenue) does Theatre (55 Davis Square) or Networking 101 ◗ MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 it up with a slightly pricey but sachusetts Avenue) is notorious popular opening-of-the-year OCS Conference Room a nice, low-key Irish brunch, Kendall Square Cinema (1 party. 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m., Columbus Day: a holiday perfect afternoon snack in and just down the street at Kendall Square) for a film, or catch for its scorpion-bowl-soaked 54 Dunster Street OCS Conference Room the cafe. Alternately, revert to weekend dance parties. Enjoy Café Luna (403 Massachusetts art-house picks at the Brattle ◗ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Etiquette 101: Manners, Meals 54 Dunster Street RAD session childhood wonder and check Avenue) you’ll find, in addition Theatre (40 Brattle Street) them while you can, because Special Students and Visiting 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. and Mastering Conversation ◗ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 out the taxidermy dodo birds to an endless line of fellow and Harvard Film Archive (24 after you start teaching the Fellows Reception Dudley House Common Room 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m., RAD self defense and fossilized mollusks at our hungry students, lobster eggs Quincy Street, in the Carpenter risk of catching your students 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., Faculty Club Lamont Library information session ◗ very own Harvard Museum benedict that will leave you Center). And now your favorite twerking becomes prohibitively Reading Room SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. OCTOBER 17 AND 18 of Natural History (26 Oxford crying with joy and lemon klezmercore/dweebstep/metal- high. Luckily, you can still enjoy ◗ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 ◗ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Dudley House Common Room Head of the Charles Regatta Street). What better way to ricotta pancakes so delicate and gaze outfit will be playing right on the tastefully-appointed space 24th Annual Minority Student First day of classes Kickoff avoid writing that seminar paper sweet that you’ll skip the syrup your doorstep, at The Sinclair in its incarnation as The Comedy ◗ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (following a MONDAY schedule) Reception and Dinner ◗ MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 or journal article than pondering Studio, a fantastic open-mic series Public Service Fair and take a moment of silence. (52 Church Street)—or maybe a 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Last day to register for or add the wonders of creation? And hosted by a former GSAS student. 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Also fantastic is City Girl (204 short T stop away, at the three-in- HILS Welcome Dinner Fire & Ice, 50 Church Street courses for the term. you can’t go a year without Hampshire Street) over in Inman one venue The Middle East (472 To cultivate that enviable sense of A gala dinner for new students RSVP to [email protected]. Dudley House Common Room sampling the neighborhood inner calm, book an appointment Square, though get there a bit Massachusetts Avenue). The folk in the Harvard Integrated Life Dudley Book Club RAD session ◗ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 charm of Chinatown, the Italian before opening if you don’t want tradition is alive and well at Club for a massage, acupuncture, some Sciences program. 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Dudley 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Study Card Deadline North End, the trendy South to get stuck gazing longingly at Passim (47 Palmer Street), and reiki or shiatsu at the Harvard 6:00 p.m., TMEC Atrium. House Graduate Student Lounge Dudley House Common Room End, and Irish South Boston. Wellness Center (located inside Contact Matt Wallace (mwallace@ Study Cards (initial course the happy people sitting at one classical lovers can choose be- enrollment) for GSAS and special the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith fas.harvard.edu) for information. ◗ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 ◗ MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 of the 10 tables inside. tween our own Sanders Theatre students for the fall term must be Campus Center at the moment). RAD session RAD session ◗ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 approved online by 11:59 p.m. At $55 for a massage it’s a great Dudley House Common Room 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. GSAS: CVs and Cover Letters 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. value and much less dubious than Arts and Literary Dudley House Common Room 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m., that hole-in-the-wall you saw on Welcome Party ◗ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 OCS Conference Room 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. ◗ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 Canal Street on your last trip to Fall (or full-year) enrollment 54 Dunster Street Dudley House Fireside Room deadline for dependent health Last day to drop a course. New York. After this date a petition to ◗ coverage and enrollment deadline Welcome Party in the FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 withdraw must be submitted to Residence Halls for dental insurance. Making a Good First Impression the GSAS Student Affairs office. ◗ SHOP 7:30 p.m., GSAS Residence Halls 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m., Last but not least, avoid the OCS Conference Room moth-eaten sweater that is the 54 Dunster Street academic’s scourge and stock up on some must-haves for the seasons ahead at vintage mecca Oona’s Experienced Clothing DID YOU KNOW THAT ALL GSAS STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM DONOR SUPPORT? (1210 Massachusetts Avenue), Thanks to donors to the Graduate School Fund: or Second Time Around (8 Eliot GSAS relies on the generosity of its alumni and friends to provide • All PhD students receive support for at least five years Street). Newbury Street has sev- students with a comprehensive eral of the latter plus all the retail financial support program. Many • Fellowship funds endowed to benefit GSAS students contribute to their financial shopping your heart desires, and donors were themselves graduate aid packages the Cambridgeside Galleria students and view their philanthropy as a way of giving back to GSAS. • Last year more than 3,000 donors contributed nearly $5.5 million to the Graduate (100 Cambridgeside Place) will School Fund, funds that were used to support professional development leave the suburbanite’s heart opportunities and fellowships. feeling like it never left home. Lusia Zaitseva and Lulu Liu are The Graduate School Fund works for you—welcome to Harvard! Brattle Theatre both PhD students at GSAS.

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