Growing community for students
It’s been an unqualified success since its launch at 5 Cowperthwaite St. and 10 Akron St. in 2009, and now Harvard University’s Graduate Commons program is growing. At the start of the fall semester, the popular program, aimed at providing an interdisciplinary, community atmosphere for residents, was expanded to include two new buildings — the Peabody Terrace apartments and the Cronkhite Graduate Center — more than doubling the number of units included in the program. “This program gives graduate students who live with us an opportunity to connect with their peers and create a community in a way that wasn’t available to them in the past,” said Associate Director Lisa Valela. “Through a variety of social and academic programs we bring together students from graduate programs all across Harvard. This gives them a chance for interdisciplinary networking, an opportunity to hear from professors and scholars in other Schools, and a place to...