10/3: Larry Soler – Partnering with Industry to Help Solve the Childhood Obesity Crisis

Posted by on Sep 28, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments Monday, October 3rd 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Pound 101, Harvard Law School The Harvard Food Law Society, Child and Youth Advocates, and the Mississippi Delta Project are cosponsoring a presentation by Larry Soler, head of The Partnership for a Healthier America.  PHA is an organization devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by solving the...
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Mississippi Policy Partners – Now Accepting Applications!

Posted by on Sep 27, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments The HLS Mississippi Delta Project’s Mississippi Policy Partners will engage Harvard students (HLS and HKS) to work with students from Mississippi’s Tougaloo College (a Jackson-based HBCU) and Mississippi legislators in order to prepare them for the start of the 2012 legislative session.  The project will involve mandatory travel to Mississippi (expenses paid) for a long weekend in November...
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Fall 2011 Info Session – Tuesday, 9/27 in Griswold 110

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments Please join us for the Mississippi Delta Project’s fall informational session, which will be held on Tuesday, September 27th in Griswold 110.  Students will have the opportunity to learn more about the exciting initiatives we are undertaking this semester, including projects in food policy, financial services, children’s health, and mental health.  Lunch will be provided.
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Delta Project – Official HLS Student Organization!

Posted by on Mar 29, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments It’s official!  The HLS Mississippi Delta Project is a student organization of HLS.  In the last two years that we’ve been in existence, we had been operating as an unofficial organization, through an association with the Clinical and Pro Bono Office at HLS.  Last week, however, we filed our Constitution and organizational papers with the Dean of Students Office and are now...
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Harvard Wide Delta Celebration – Success!

Posted by on Dec 10, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments Thank you so much to those of you who joined us last week at the Second Annual Harvard Mississippi Delta Celebration! It event was a huge success, giving people time to mingle, network and learn about the wide range of work being done through Harvard for the Delta. We were thrilled to have so many people there and to hear from such a diverse range of students and faculty about the wonderful work...
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HLS Delta Project’s Fall 2010 Newsletter

Posted by on Nov 29, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments The Delta Project has just come out with its second bi-annual newsletter. This newsletter includes updates and information about student projects conducted during the spring 2010 semester. In this newsletter, we have added information about projects operating in the Delta sponsored by other Harvard schools in addition to the Law School. We have added contact information for those projects if our...
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