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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Group researches stem cells

September 4, 2012

By Ana Scuric As Kevin Adler ’13 walks into a lab at the University of Southern California’s Eli and Edythe Blythe Broad Center for Stem Cell Research, he grabs his lab coat and prepares...

Intern helps build mouse brain database

September 4, 2012

By Lauren Siegel As the only high school intern at UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Molly Cinnamon ’14 spent her summer conducting and observing experiments that will contribute...

Miles for music

September 4, 2012

By Sydney Foreman A few hundred or even a few thousand miles did not stop music lovers from seeing their favorite acts this summer. Although Sziget, one of the biggest music festivals in Europe was not...

Students work as summer interns for upcoming political races for president, congressmen, mayor

September 4, 2012

By Ally White and Michael Sugerman   Copying fliers and running errands, transcribing speeches and maintaining websites were some of the tasks assigned to students who volunteered during the...

Senior Signs with Record Company

Marcella Park September 4, 2012

by Marcella Park Alex Fleischman ’13 recently signed with the record label Bombeatz Music after sending in several demos of his own electronic creations and getting positive reviews. Fleischman has been...

O’Malley films documentary about Luebtow’s fountain

September 4, 2012

By Jivani Gengatharan   Visual arts teacher Kevin O’Malley created two documentaries about fellow art teacher John Luebtow’s fountain Venus Vitae located in the heart of Century...

Programmer builds a team of robots

September 4, 2012

By Jensen Pak Programming a robotic arm and other systems, Josh Lappen ’13 researched polymorphic robotics as an intern at the University of Southern California this summer. Lappen worked under...

Sophomore puts song on iTunes, releases music video on YouTube

September 4, 2012

By Zoe Dutton   Singer Claire Nordstrom ’15 released her first single "Yet…" last week. The song was one of several that she wrote herself in January, after receiving a ukulele...

Senior translates multiple languages

September 4, 2012

By Jessica Lee Staring at the dull glow of her computer screen, Annie Wasserman ’13 typed away, translating sentence after sentence from French to English, stopping only when she had finished...

High Stakes: Starting the Application Process

September 4, 2012

By Rachel Schwartz   Courtney* Courtney spent her summer going to tournaments and camps for her sport. She has met with coaches and has received offers from several schools including eight division...

Introducing the rising seniors

May 29, 2012

By Elana Zeltser Courtney*, the athlete When Courtney first began playing her sport in the fourth grade, she did not realize that it would become a year–round commitment for her. However, when...

Sharing study guides raises variety of issues

May 29, 2012

By Claire Hong Nikki Volpert ’12 has been making study guides to help herself study for her midterms and finals since the ninth grade. This year was the first time she tried to sell them because...

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