Currier House (Harvard College)
| Currier House | |
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| Residential House at Harvard University | |
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Shield of Currier House
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| University | Harvard University |
| Location | 64 Linnaean Street |
| Coordinates | 42°22′54.09″N 71°07′32.78″W / 42.3816917°N 71.1257722°WCoordinates: 42°22′54.09″N 71°07′32.78″W / 42.3816917°N 71.1257722°W |
| Motto | Timete Arborem (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Fear The Tree |
| Established | 1970 |
| Named for | Audrey Bruce Currier |
| Colours | Green, Red, and Black |
| Sister college | Ezra Stiles College |
| Faculty Deans | Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross |
| Undergraduates | 360 |
| Called | Currierites |
| Website | currierquad |
Currier House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Opened in September 1970, it is named after Audrey Bruce Currier, a member of the Radcliffe College Class of 1956 who, along with her husband, was killed in a plane crash in 1967. The area was formerly used as housing for Radcliffe College, and as such the four towers of Currier House are named for distinguished alumnae of Radcliffe, including the author Barbara Tuchman and composer Mabel Daniels. Along with Cabot House and Pforzheimer House, Currier is part of the former Radcliffe Quadrangle, known colloquially within the college as simply, "The Quad".
Beginning in September 2008, Currier House will welcome new Housemasters Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross. Wrangham and Ross first came to the United States after living in Great Britain. Wrangham has taught courses in human evolutionary biology and anthropology since 1989. Ross, whose academic background is in immunology, is the founder and executive director of the Kasiisi Project, a non-profit in western Uganda. The Allston Burr Resident Dean is Laura Johnson. Previous masters have included scholar of Islam and current Dean of Harvard Divinity School William A. Graham, chemist and Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach, and classicist Gregory Nagy.
Because of its distance from most of the other residential houses, its physical layout (which places most of the house's social space near the entrance), and its small size (it has the smallest population of any house), many Currier residents consider the house to have one of the strongest and most cohesive house communities of Harvard's residential houses. Students routinely rank Currier's dining hall highest among Harvard dining halls in food quality. In 2005, Currier renovated a common space known as the "Fishbowl" to create an entertainment center complete with a big screen projector and surround sound system. In early 2006, Currier painted many of its interior walls to produce a more colorful atmosphere.
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