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Khalighi has been a certified fitness instructor since the age of 14.
Matine Khalighi is on the Move
Freshman Matine Khalighi is one of only three undergraduate fitness instructors and teaches seven to nine classes per week.
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Matine Khalighi '25 teaches seven to nine fitness classes per week at Harvard's Recreation facilities.
Lindsay Sanwald, Her Loop Pedal, and Her Surf Board
A Masters of Divinity candidate graduating this spring, Sanwald lets her spirituality manifest in a variety of ways: the psychedelic indie-rock one-woman show she performs under the stage name Idgy Dean,; the Patreon account she runs to offer sermons, spiritual guidance, and meditation to monthly subscribers, and, as of late, surfing.
Fueled by Coconuts and Adrenaline, Swati Goel '25 Lives Her 'Biggest Dream' on Survivor
For Goel, the show has been a comfort since middle school — like “chicken soup,” she says. “It’s just the thing I would watch whenever I was upset or sad.” Auditioning for the show was a bucket-list item for her.
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Swati Goel '25 competed on the 42nd season of the hit CBS reality competition show "Survivor."
Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Reaches for the Stars
There may be more Earth-like planets in the universe than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches combined, researchers predict. “The extraordinary claim is to say that we are special and unique,” Loeb says.
Meet Julie Fiveash, Harvard's First Librarian for American Indigenous Studies
Their position carves out a distinct space in the world’s largest academic library system to focus exclusively on organizing, spotlighting, and acquiring materials in a field that has long been neglected.
Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb, pictured here in 2017, is a Harvard professor an astrophysicist who founded the Galileo Project, a controversial center dedicated to unearthing evidence that objects made by extraterrestrial life are in our solar system.
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For Swati Goel '25, competing on Survivor was the realization of a long-held dream.
How Not to Die Alone, According to Relationship Expert Logan Ury
This counterintuitive revelation — that the road to love can be paved with scientific rationality — is the foundation of Ury’s book, as well as her career more broadly.
An Antique Bookstore for the 21st Century
The Brattle Book Shop in Boston, full of rare and antique books, is one of America’s oldest and largest used bookstores.
How David Foster Grew the Harvard Forest to New Heights
The forest, Foster says, “is one of those kinds of resources that no other university has, so it’s something that Harvard should really cherish.”
Benjamin Bolger Has No Post-Graduation Plans
“Other people might read a magazine article in The Economist,” Bolger says. “Maybe I'll do a master’s degree instead on the topic.”