The Harvard campus during the summer is an energetic, enriching environment. If you choose to live on campus, we have a range of resources for you.

Roommates and Room Assignment

The Summer School houses students by program, session, age range, and availability. Roommate requests cannot be honored. When planning what to bring with you, it is best to keep in mind that all dorm rooms are small.

You are encouraged to bring the following items: Alarm clock, Backpack, Calendar, Cell phone, Clothes hanger, Comfortable walking shoes, Blanket, Computer/laptop, Desk lamp, Dryer sheet, Pillow, School supplies, Towel, Umbrella, Waste basket.

Several items are forbidden inside the dormitories and MUST be left at home, including: Air conditioner, Candle, Boiler/toaster oven, Coffee maker/tea kettle, Hot pot, Popcorn popper, Rice cooker, Sandwich maker, Toaster, Drone, Microwave or refrigerator, Pet of any kind.

Health Services

For on-campus residents, the outpatient facilities of University Health Services (UHS) in the Smith Campus Center are available 24 hours a day for urgent healthcare needs. UHS services such as X-rays and physical therapy are provided only in connection with acute care, as ordered by staff physicians. The dental and eye clinics operate on a fee-for-service basis and are available only in cases of urgent need.

Letters of Enrollment (注册)

A letter of enrollment includes a listing of courses in which you are registered for the term. You may request a letter of enrollment by completing a letter of enrollment request form. Letter of Enrollment request forms can be submitted via email: academicservices@ extension. harvard. edu. All requests must be made in writing. Telephone and email requests are not accepted.

On a recent visit to an exhibition, I broke what is usually a museum’s most fixed rule. I touched the art. No shocked guards stopped me or shooed away the many smaller viewers who were doing the same.

This was the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. But unlike many displays for the young, this one, “Inside Art” features works by 11 adults whose résumés include the Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio and the Whitney.

The show lets visitors encounter art “not as a child sort of pretending to be an adult,” said Leslie Bushara, the museum’s director, but “running around like a child.” Run around they do. Joiri Minaya’s “Spandex Installation” invites the curious into a brightly printed maze (迷宫). “Up & Around,” a group of large cylinders (圆柱体) made by Yeju & Chat, appeals to museum goers to stand inside each tube and experience bursts of color and pattern.

The new exhibition expands on a museum tradition begun in 2002, when “Art Inside Out” featured the work of the artist Elizabeth Murray. Children played with models of that art but not the art itself. In 2018, “Art, Artists & You” allowed them to work with resident artists, but not to handle the pieces in the show.

“We knew this next exhibit needed to be something kids could physically engage with and aesthetically (审美地) engage with,” said David Rios, the director of “Inside Art”. That means “not just artwork you can crawl through,”Mr. Rios said, “but you’re making art in the same space.”

Mr. Rios wanted children to be exposed to the participating artists’ philosophies and activism. For the exhibition labels, the artists “were challenged to write about their work as if they were explaining it to a 5-year-old,” he said. But if “Inside Art” serves its purpose, the show will start children on an evolving journey.

When it comes to cooling the planet, forests have more than one trick. The effect is largely from forests’ ability to catch and store carbon. But around one-third of that tropical cooling effect comes from several other processes, such as the release of water vapor and aerosols (气溶胶).

Researchers already knew that forests influence their local climates through various physical and chemical processes. But on a global level, it wasn’t clear about other cooling benefits compared with the cooling provided by forests’ capturing of carbon dioxide, Lawrence said.

So she and her colleagues analyzed how the complete deforestation of different regions would impact global temperatures，using data gathered from other studies. For instance, the researchers used forest biomass data to determine how much the release of carbon stored by those forests would warm the global temperature. They then compared those results with other studies’ estimates of how much the loss of other aspects of forests — such as vapor release, uneven canopies (树蓬) and aerosol production — affected regional and global temperatures.

The researchers found that in forests at latitudes from around 50°S to 50°N, the primary way that forests influenced the temperature was through carbon sequestration (封存). Forests located from 30°N to 30°S, the most of that cooling, around 0.2 degrees C, came from forests in the core of the rainforest. Canopy features of the region generally provided the greatest cooling, followed by vapor release and then aerosols.

Forests in the far north, however, appear to have a net warming effect, the team reports. The far northern forests would expose more snow cover during the winter. This would decrease ground level temperatures because snow reflects much of the incoming sunlight back into the sky. Still, the researchers found that altogether, the world’s forests cool the global average temperature about 0.5 degrees C.

The findings suggest that global and regional climate action efforts should avoid focusing only on carbon emissions. Lawrence says, “It’s cool to see beyond carbon dioxide, but it’s also very important to see beyond deforestation.”