*Brazil Studies Program Seminar
The Expulsion of Drug Gangs from Rio Slums: The View of the Electric Utility
Dr. Jerson Kelman*
President, Light Group; President, Administrative Council of AD-Rio
(Economic and Social Development Agency of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
Moderated by John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of
Environmental Engineering (SEAS) and Professor of the Practice of
Environmental Health (HSPH), Harvard University
Thursday, February 3rd, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
A Brazilian lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m. The seminar will begin at
12:15 p.m.
Contact: brazil(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Aaron Litvin
Program Manager, Harvard Brazil Studies Program
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Summer 2011 - Harvard Student Programs in Brazil Portuguese Language and
Brazilian Culture (
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/student/portugueserio2011)
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, two major Brazilian cities, provide the ideal
atmosphere for full immersion in Portuguese language and Brazilian political
and cultural life. Students interact with Brazilians from all walks of life
through community service, lectures by renowned scholars, instructional
excursions, and classes taught by Harvard faculty. For the first two weeks
of the program students study and stay in São Paulo, then they move to Rio
de Janeiro for the remaining six weeks.
*Prerequisites*: 1 year or 1 accelerated semester of college-level
Portuguese
*Application deadline: **Friday,** **February 4, 2011***
*Dates*: June 12 to August 6, 2011
*Faculty: **Dr.** *Clémence Jouët-Pastré
*For additional information*, please contact Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré at:
cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu
*More Information* <http://www.summer.harvard.edu/abroad/brazil/>
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Public Policy Immersion Program in Brazil: Learning from Community Service (
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/student/ppip/2011)
The purpose of the Public Policy Immersion Program is to expose Harvard
College students to the complexity of the challenges and opportunities faced
by Latin America’s largest democracy by giving them an opportunity to
undertake meaningful community service projects in São Paulo, the country’s
economic and industrial capital. A select group of College students will be
chosen to work as volunteers in carefully selected organizations in
metropolitan São Paulo. Harvard Graduate students are also invited to take
advantage of this program, the Brazil Office facilities and our network of
contacts throughout the country to secure interesting and meaningful
internship opportunities.**
*Application Form* <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011ppipapplication>* (Apply
Now)*
*Program Dates*: June 13 to August 12, 2011
*Eligibility*: Continuing Harvard College students in good academic standing
with a minimum of intermediate Portuguese (Portuguese Cb or higher). Fluent
or native Spanish speakers may also apply. Students need to be prepared to
work in Portuguese on arrival. Applicants from all concentrations are
welcome.
*Application Deadline*: Friday, February 18, 2011
*Portuguese Interviews*: February 28 to March 4, 2011
*Financial Aid:* In a few cases of high financial need, the DRCLAS may be
able to subsidize the cost of the program. All students requesting financial
aid from the DRCLAS need to complete the Student Consent to the Release of
Information<http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/files/Student%20Consent%20to%20the%20Release%…>
form when applying.
Please check other funds available:
David Rockefeller International Experience Grant (DRIEG):
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip/rockefeller/dr_overview.html<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eoip/rockefeller/dr_overview.html>
Harvard College Funding Source Database: http://www.funding.fas.harvard.edu/
*For additional information*, please contact Marina de Moura (
marina_demoura(a)harvard.edu)
http://www.gse.harvard.edu
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
News Features & Releases
"Brazil, Boston, and Beyond: Master's Student Mariana Simões"
January 11, 2011
By Mateo Corby
Master's candidate Mariana Simões is no stranger to Harvard. A native of
Brazil, she spent a year in Cambridge with her family as her father
completed his postdoctoral degree in engineering. "I lived at 29 Garden
Street, studied at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, and crossed Harvard Yard
every day on the way to school," she recalls.
A decade later, Simões is trekking across the Yard once again, only now
she's on her way to classes at HGSE. "Here I am, so many years later,
visiting my old neighbors and living on Oxford Street, one block away from
my dad's old office," she marvels. "It really is a small world after all."
Simões has always liked working with young children; as a teenager in Brazil
she used to serve in the nursery and teach Sunday School to toddlers. But
her passion for the science of early childhood development came later,
during her undergraduate studies in psychology at the Federal University of
São Carlos. "I really enjoyed learning how humans develop in the early years
of our lives, and how preventive interventions can be efficient in producing
positive future results," she remembers.
Fascinated by the power of early intervention and deeply bothered by
ingrained social injustices in her country, Simões decided to dedicate her
life to improving the outcomes of underprivileged groups and struggling
youth. During her college years, she took part in various research projects
related to children with learning disabilities and behavior problems.
Repeatedly finding strong positive associations between lack of opportunity
in impoverished communities and educational special needs, Simões became
interested in investigating multilevel holistic interventions that both
diminish the negative effects of risks and promote protective factors, thus
providing children with a greatly increased chance of healthy development.
In 2007, Simões took a one-year leave of absence from her undergraduate
studies to work as a research assistant at the Shriver Center of the
University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she participated full time
in an investigation project on novel behavioral methods for teaching and
evaluating children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Back in Brazil,
she helped develop a computer-based program that teaches basic reading and
writing skills to at-risk elementary school children from low-income
communities. "Despite some expected limitations, that study was very
significant and our program continues to be improved and implemented in
schools across the country," she says.
Convinced that her psychology background focused too much on individual
interventions to effect substantial universal changes in Brazil, Simões
looked for a master's program with a wider reach. She found it in the Ed
School's Prevention Science and Practice Program (PSP). "The first time I
read its description, I immediately fell in love," she says. "It was exactly
the type of program that I needed to broaden my perspective from an
individual approach to a large scale community intervention."
Simões, who is supported in her studies by a fellowship from Jorge Paulo
Lemann and the Lemann family, raves about the abundance of resources at the
Ed School, from libraries and electronic journals to career advisors and
involved professors. "The faculty members are so approachable and so
knowledgeable about their topics of interest and research," she says. "They
know how to teach effectively, they encourage our professional development,
and they inspire us to become catalysts of social transformation."
When asked to choose her favorite aspect however, she hardly hesitates. "My
peers, definitely. The students here are so diverse, with so many incredible
life and professional experiences. I feel really blessed with the chance to
get to know lots of them, and humbled to think that these friends I'm making
now will eventually be future world leaders in education."
Her positive experience in PSP has her reformulating her short-term plans.
When she arrived on campus a few months ago, Simões had no intention of
staying more than the time it took to get her master's; now she's hoping to
pursue a doctoral degree. "I've been presented with lots of incredible
opportunities here in the Boston area, all of which are encouraging reasons
to stay. I still have a lot to learn, and I can't think of a better place to
be than here!"
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2011/01/brazil-boston
-and-beyond-masters-student-mariana-simoes.html
Tomás Galli de Amorim
Program Officer, Brazil Office
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil