Posts by William Cracraft
Rajiv Movva ’18 awarded Davidson Fellowship for ongoing project
Rajiv Movva ’18 was named a Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to develop his project “SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease.”
Preschoolers discover cave art, add their own
Harker preschoolers learned about prehistoric art, then made some of their own, last week. Michael Ear, the new art teacher at the preschool, led the expedition.
Athletic center and Rothschild Performing Arts Center earn SVBJ Structure Awards
Senior holds inaugural event for sports nonprofit opening offices in U.S.
Organized by Akhila Ramgiri, grade 12, Harker hosted a basketball tournament as an awareness event for Hi5 Youth Foundation in the school’s athletic center this past weekend.
Mitra and Near endowment awardees for humanities research papers announced
Harker is pleased to announce its 2018-19 endowment awardees; each student will receive a grant to help them in their yearlong effort producing a research paper on a humanities subject.
Sophomore raises $31K from benefit concert with help of recent grads
Andrew Semenza ‘18 and Millie Lin ‘18, at the behest of brother Jason Lin, grade 10, performed for a benefit concert on Aug. 19 along with friend Kevin Zhu, a Bay Area native and world-renown violist. All proceeds went to the Tahirih Justice Center, a national nonprofit committed to serving as many immigrant women and girls fleeing violence as possible.
Beloved visionary and board chair Diana Nichols passes on, memorial set for Oct. 6
Alumni Updates: DoorDash, Americans for Prosperity and UNICEF
Harker alumni continue to impress with their activism!
Upper school speech and debate team kicks off year with retreat
Fifty-eight students participated in the inaugural upper school speech and debate team retreat on Aug. 25-26.








