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Stephanie Aktipis
Hi! I'm Stephanie, and I'm looking forward to my second year as a tutor at Cabot House! I'm returning to Harvard
as a fifth year PhD candidate in evolutionary biology, but I spent the 2005-2006 academic year getting a Master's in science
policy at the London School of Economics. I spent my childhood on both the East Coast and in the St. Louis area, but after
four years in Cambridge, have come to love New England sports teams, sailing on the Charles and trying to roller-blade on
Memorial Drive on sunny Sunday afternoons (but I have to admit that I'm still working on loving Boston winters). For my PhD,
I study the evolution of marine snails and am generally interested in all types of invertebrates. I attended The George
Washington University for college, and was a varsity swimmer there, so I can't wait to root on all the Cabot athletes.
However, after two shoulder surgeries, I am now left exploring dry-land activities, especially salsa dancing with my husband
Michael. You'll be able to find us at the Cabot dance studio, the dining hall, and our flat, E-211. Stop by anytime for
discussions about biology, science policy, mixing academic disciplines, impromptu dance lessons, or trashy television!
Michael Aktipis
My name is Michael Aktipis and I'm a second year tutor in Cabot House.
I'm originally from suburban Chicago, but spent my summers as a kid
in my parents' childhood homes of Vienna and Athens. Since graduating
from Northwestern in 2002 with a degree in Economics, Political
Science and German, I've been living in Europe, first in Vienna where
I spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Diplomatic Academy of
Vienna and more recently in London where I recently completed my PhD
in International Relations at the London School of Economics as a
Marshall Scholar. I'm now in my first year at Harvard Law School, my
final hurrah as a graduate student, I promise! If you are interested
in applying for any overseas fellowships or just want to know more
about what they entail just let me know. In the many years I've lived
in Europe I've also picked up a few foreign languages, so if you're a
fan of European languages and want some practice, I'm always up for a
chat (German, French, Modern Greek and a few other random ones)! As a
Salsa instructor for the last seven years, you might find me in the
Cabot Dance Studio where I hope to teach some dance classes for
residents throughout the year - you're all welcome to join!
Tom Barnet-Lamb
Hello! I'm Tom, and I'm in the fourth year of the Math PhD program, and I'm a math resident tutor. I hope I'll
be
able to help people with their assorted math queries and problems, and even branch out into CS, Econ and Physics. (If it has equations, I'm game!) Outside the classroom, I sing (bass), with UChoir, and I hope to get involved with all the wonderful music going on in the house. As an Englishman, I also hope to be able to further the house's collective appreciation of tea (and British comedy). And finally, I have been accused of being an inveterate conversationalist, on topics as diverse as European politics and the philosophy of mind---and I hope to be able to have many stimulating conversations with you all in the dining hall!
Aaron Berkowitz
I am a fifth year graduate student in music, studying ethnomusicology, composition, piano, and music cognition. I
will be helping to organize House concerts and other musical events, so please find me or email me if you have ideas or
playing/performing interests. Over the past 10 years or so, I did my undergraduate degrees at George Washington University (BA
in music, BS in biology), worked in neuroscience research at the NIH, taught English as a foreign language in Paris while
studying music there, traveled through Europe and India, and then completed 3 and a half years of an MD at Johns Hopkins
before going on leave of absence to do a PhD in music here at Harvard. So this marks my 8th year of post college education! My
current projects include concerts on fortepiano (the predecessor of the piano), a brain imaging study of musical
improvisation, several compositions, and a dissertation comparing music and language learning. As a member of the pre-med
committee, I want to help you figure out if medicine is the right choice for you, and if so, make sure that you are aware of
the various options, including less-than-traditional routes, to and through medical education (e.g., time off, deferral,
combined degrees, etc.). Feel free to come talk to me about any aspect of medical school, medicine, music, study abroad.... I
also run a weekly French Table (time/date TBA) at which students at all levels are welcome. I look forward to meeting
everyone!
Wally Bethune
Hey there. I'm thrilled to be back for my 6th year as a resident premed tutor at Cabot House. I love this job! Back in the
day, when I was a Cabot undergrad, premed tutors reached out to me and really helped me alot. So I'm very excited to have the
opportunity to give back and hopefully help many of you along on the road to becoming a physician. Wherever you are on that
very long road - from deciding whether or not to be "premed" in the first place to figuring out which orgo class to take and
when to take it to preparing for the MCAT or for med school interviews - I am here to help you strategize about how to move
forward. I especially enjoy strategizing over a chickwich.
In my other job, I'm currently in my 3rd year of post-medical school training, completing my residency in the Department of
Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anesthesia is, in my opinion, the coolest thing since sliced
bread; a true everyday miracle. Learning how to practice this amazing craft is an honor and a privilege ...not to mention its
so much fun, sometimes I can hardly believe its legal! Livin' the dream y'all.
So, when I'm not practicing anesthesia, studying anesthesia or hanging out in the dining hall telling stories about crazy
anesthesia misadventures, I also enjoy working out (biking, running, weights, hoops), visiting Montreal (an amazing city with
amazingly cool people and an awesome jazz festival every summer), and discussing the latest news about my hometown Knicks and
Yankees. Lastly, I'm a recovering fast-motorcycle addict; I sold my Yamaha R1 a couple years back and its a daily struggle
not to relapse and get another sportbike. I've currently got my eye on the '08 Yamaha R6S... Meanwhile, I hope to see you
around the house and I'm looking forward to getting to know many of you during the year!
Alexander Boni-Saenz
Alex is excited to be joining Cabot House this year as the Pre-Law Committee Vice-Chair and LGBT Tutor. He also
enjoys writing bios in the third person. Alex is crazy about sushi, cats (especially his own), yoga, politics, and games of all kinds. He was raised in Washington, D.C., and came to the College to become a social science guru, studying psychology and government. Later on, he thought it might be cool to be a social policy guru as well, so he voyaged to London to get a Masters degree in how Europe spends its taxes. Then the law seemed interesting, so Alex chose to escape back to Harvard, but not before deferring for two years. He spent that time exploring and living it up in a new cold city with easy beach access (Chicago) and researching health, aging, and disability issues. He returned there this past summer to work for the ACLU, and now Alex is a full-fledged 3L at the Law School working towards a career in public interest law or legal academia, while getting some work in at the Harvard Law Review and Latino Law Review as well. Alex is a great resource for brainstorming creative ways of deferring law school and making it a worthwhile experience once you get there, following a public service path, and discussing politics and minority identities. Alternatively, if you just want to play a game (board, card, video, computer, etc.), grab dinner in the dining hall, or chat about how cats are the pinnacle of evolution, he wouldn't mind that either. Come on by Cabot I-11 and say hello! If you are allergic to cats, we'll chill in a common room.
Monique-Adelle Callahan
Hey...I'm Monique. I'm a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department. I am passionate about literature and languages. Right now I'm working on a dissertation project, a comparative study of African American, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban poetry. Before coming to Harvard, I received a BA from Wellesley in English and Africana Studies (translates most closely to Harvard's African and American Studies category). I'm here to help you with any African-American Studies queries or general literature questions. Come chat with me in the cafeteria or come by room G-404...read some poetry and share it with me...write some poetry and share it with me...always a welcome diversion for us from the stress of school etc... etc.. or se você quer we could talk Olodum and feijão or si tú quieres we could talk Malécon and Morejón...see you in the dining hall!
Fiery Cushman
Hi, I'm Fiery, and I'm excited to be the psychology tutor for Cabot this year. This will be my third year as a
tutor and my eighth at Harvard, where I got my BA, spent a year as a research assistant, and am entering my third year in
grad school. I work at the monkey lab in
William James Hall, and my research focuses on cooperative behavior and moral psychology in both humans and nonhuman primates.
As an undergraduate I lived in Pfoho and majored in biology. I also did a lot of work with Harvard Model Congress as
anundergrad, but these days I like to occupy my spare time with music, reading, cooking & eating well, and of course the
Red Sox. I'm eager to meet everyone in Cabot House and I hope you'll drop by my room in Briggs (C-11) and say hello.
Jennifer Dlugosz
Hi everyone! I'm a fourth year in the Business Economics Ph.D. program and I'm looking forward to joining Cabot next year. After graduating from college (UPenn), I worked as a consultant in Manhattan for about a year. I was on the verge of jumping ship to join the Peace Corps when a former professor offered me a job researching corporate governance. That's how I ended up in Cambridge and I (happily) haven't left since. I study corporate finance and organizational economics - my current area of interest is the private equity industry. When I'm not working on research, I love getting outside for bike rides to Walden Pond, running by the river, and taking hot yoga classes. As a first-year tutor I'm excited to meet all of you. I'm here to help with your economics and business-related questions whether you're choosing classes, working on a problem set/paper, or preparing for job interviews. Of course I won't complain if instead you want to chat about some article you read on Slate, Murakami novels, or where to get great Indian and Ethiopian food.
Ashley Fure
Hey there lovely people. My name is Ashley Fure and I am a fifth
year Ph.D. student in the music composition program. This fall begins
my (gasp...!) fifth year as a tutor in Cabot. Joining me for her
second official season is my lovable little shih-tzu named
Billie. Billie is permanently on loan to all dog-sick cabotians, so
stop by J-11 any time if you need some good-old fashioned canine
cuddling. I grew up on the shore's of Lake Superior in a luscious and
freezing place called Marquette, MI. After attending the Interlochen
Arts Academy for high school I completed a B. Mus. at the Oberlin
Conservatory before making my way out to Cambridge. I love all kinds
of art, so keep me posted on all your creative pursuits. Harvard has a
wealth of support for active student artists, and as music tutor I can
help direct you towards funding for projects of all kinds. Other
passions of mine include puppies (could you tell?), politics, Virginia
Woolf, and basketball -- so I'll see you on the IM court. Looking
forward to a fantastic year!
Richard Johnston
Hi everyone, my name is Richard, and I'm looking forward to joining Cabot House next year as a Resident Tutor. I am a second-year PhD student in English, and I study nineteenth-century literature and culture. I'm hoping to write a dissertation on literary representations of natural history. I'm interested, for example, in how literary works reflect and respond to changing conceptions of the history and age of the earth. I'm really a closet scientist, you see. When I was an undergrad, I briefly considered majoring in physics, but I couldn't handle the math. Now I can read popular science and call it work.
I am originally from Spartanburg, SC. After high school, I went to Princeton, where I majored in English and wrote a poetry thesis. I was very fortunate during my senior year to win a Marshall Scholarship, so rather than teaching high school English after college, my initial plan, I moved to England, and when I wasn't traveling, I was studying twentieth-century literature at Sussex and later Romantic literature at Oxford. After three years of graduate study, I needed a break from school in a big way, so I moved to Japan and taught high school ESL for two years. Then I moved back to South Carolina and taught English lit at Wofford College while I applied to grad school. And here I am.
When I'm not reading books, I enjoy listening to music -- all kinds of music. I take pride in being the only person at Hemenway who works out to a mix of Brahms, Bob Dylan, and Moby. I also like exploring Cambridge and Boston on my bike, and I've only had two accidents so far. I pick up a new hobby each month. My current hobby is knots, and I recently tied my first monkey's fist. My greatest love, however, is baseball. I played for fifteen years, and while I was only a mediocre player in the US and Japan, I was pretty doggone good in the UK. (I wonder why?) Being from the South, I'm a Braves fan.
I look forward to getting to know you in the months ahead. If you ever want to talk about literature, fellowships, baseball, music, sushi, knots, or really anything at all, then please seek me out!
Julie Kobick
Hi everyone! My name is Julie and I'm excited to join the Cabot community as a tutor this year. I'm a first-year
law student at BC focusing on education and civil rights law, and I just finished my second year as a third grade teacher in
the Bronx and as a Teach for America corps member. I have been fortunate over the past two years to have been assigned classes
full of energetic and engaged students who keep me on my toes but also make me love my job. If you ever want to see pictures
of them, I probably have thousands by now and love to show them off. I spent my undergraduate years at Harvard and lived in
Winthrop (I know... boo river houses!). I was a government concentrator and kept otherwise busy working with Harvard Model
Congress, the IOP, Let's Go, and tutoring throughout Boston. I'm looking forward to long dining hall conversations, lots of IM
soccer games, and getting to know all of you! Fiery and I will always have our door open for visits - please stop in and say
hi.
Sumin Koo
Hi everyone! I'm currently a fourth-year PhD student in the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School.
I'm
originally from the sunny island of Singapore and did my BA at University of Cambridge (UK) in Biochemistry. After graduation, I did a year of research on embryonic stem cells before starting graduate school here in this Cambridge across the Atlantic. I'm currently working on the genetics of leukemia, finding out what are the candidate genes that cause the different types of leukemia and testing the genes in mouse models. I will be happy to talk to students interested in life sciences or biomedical research. So feel free to pop by my room at L41, whether you are interested in summer research around the Harvard medical school area or would like to learn more about graduate school in life sciences. In my free time, I love traveling, skiing, dancing and watching the Red Sox. I am also particularly passionate about public service and have volunteered in various activities like teaching ESL classes and mentoring minority high school students. I recently just came back from China, where I spent some time helping out at an orphanage. I look forward to meeting and chatting with all of you in the dining halls!
Andrew Levin
Hey everybody! Fourth time's the charm. It's good to be back for another year of action packed Cabot-mania.
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, my undergrad years were all about central New Jersey and Princeton, studying mechanical
engineering. Believe it or not, I've actually graduated so it's doctor/doctor now. This year I'm working at Genzyme in
Cambridge in the cardiovascular group. It's pretty frickin' sweet. During the educational years I was fortunate enough to
convince fellowships to give me money to travel to exotic locations like Peru and Paris (in the picture I'm at Omaha beach
contemplating the magnitude of the D-Day invasion) so if you're into that sort of thing, I can give you some secret grant
writing tips. When I'm not doing the day job, you might find me floating on a surf board wishing the East coast had better
waves. If you want to chat current events my primary periodicals are US Weekly and The Economist, go figure.
Lisa Lightbody
I'm excited to be joining Cabot House as a pre-law tutor this year. While not an exhaustive list, I'm consistently
into films, Salvatore Ferragamo, and sports of all kinds (at the moment playing ultimate Frisbee and basketball). Some
background. I grew up in Falmouth, Maine (state bird the chickadee, state flower the pine cone) and studied Social Studies at
the College where my favorite course was actually a cross-registered performance class with Joan Jonas. I moved to Lewiston,
Maine for a year (highlights included coaching the freshman girls basketball team at the local catholic school) before
studying video and performance art in Hamburg, Germany. At the law school I am brainstorming ways to an interesting career in
Europe or Russia. Hopefully by next fall I will be able to entertain with interesting tales from a summer spent working
overseas. I'd love to chat pretty much about anything and I'm I look forward to getting to know you all in the coming
months!
Sam Lipoff
- Field: Chemistry
- Charges: Information Technology
- Phone: 3-5735
- Room: M-11
- Address: 568 Cabot Mail Center
- Email: lipoff@fas.harvard.edu
Hi Cabot! I'm a third-year Chemistry PhD student at MIT, but I was also a Harvard undergrad ('04) and lived in
Cabot, so I'm very excited to be back! I'm a physical chemist and I study very simple, very small molecules with very
complicated, very big lasers. I also work on cooling simple molecules to ultra-cold temperatures, and while I usually work
with my hands, I do some theory too. As an undergrad, I was a joint concentrator in "Chemistry and Physics" and "History of
Science" here at Harvard, worked on the Harvard Asia Pacific Review and the HPAIR conference, researched, traveled, met lots
of amazing people, and tried to help Cabot in the annual fencing intermural. I spent the year after graduation as an MPhil
student at Trinity College, Cambridge in the UK working on history of science in China and Japan, and leaving no stone
un-turned in my search for that the quasi-mythical substance known only as "good British food". Even if I don't (usually)
pahk mah cah in Hahvahd Yahd, I am a native Bostonian, and love the nooks and crannies of this city and its environs. Let me
know if you want to explore the Armenian bakeries of Watertown, the Banh Mi of Dorchester, the great Sichuan food that can be
found in Malden, or anything else. I love to travel, and while great food is no small motivation, I can also help you out if
you need to rent a dune buggy in Xinjiang, need to find soap bubbles for a hundred people at midnight in Tokyo, or want some
tips on the elusive search for "good British food". (Please) don't ask me to fix your toilet (Mike would get upset!), but I
do love tinkering and building things, and am always ready to discuss the latest gadget for this or that. I love books,
libraries, photography, pens, scallion pancakes, history, science, and penguins.
Myles Osborne
- Field: History and African Studies
- Charges: Sophomore Advising
- Phone: 3-3527
- Room: H-100
- Email: mosborne@fas.harvard.edu
Hi Everyone, I'm going to be the History and African Studies tutor in the house this year. This will be my third year in Cabot. I'm a third year PhD student in the History department, specialising in Kenya, and analysing the way that my countrymen managed to mess up large tracts of the African continent. When not working on History, you can find me trying to find people to teach me obscure African languages. I did my undergraduate work at Columbia and Oxford so please feel free to stop by if you want to hear about studying in England first hand! In my spare time I do any kind of outdoor sports - although my talents in American sports are strictly limited - and I love to climb, so if you want to talk mountains, come on by! I also own an embarrassingly large number of teen comedies on DVD...
Brandon Van Dyck
Hi all. I'm Brandon, and I grew up in Athens, GA, home of R.E.M., the B-52s, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kim Basinger, and the Georgia Bulldogs. In 2000, I left home to study at Princeton, and after taking the 2002-3 academic year off to work as a waiter in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, I returned to P-town and graduated in 2005 with a major in Politics. In June of 2006, I finished a one-year MPhil at Cambridge University in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Most of my work at Princeton and Cambridge was philosophical: my Princeton thesis was about the concept of justification, and my Cambridge dissertation was (going a layer deeper) about the nature of concepts. Since joining the Government Department's PhD program in the Fall of 2006, my research interests have shifted away from philosophy and toward "political science". Right now I'm studying ethnic mobilization, democratization, and the political economy of development in Latin America, and I'd love to chat with you about this or any topics/questions related to studying Government at Harvard. Outside of school, I enjoy decompressing at the piano, playing with Cabot's IM indoor soccer team (known to some as the "Hotshots"), and drinking coffee. It promises to be a fun year, and I'm looking forward to meeting you.
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