Senior Common Room (SCR)

Amara Mulder

Non-Resident Tutor
Chief of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine, South Shore Medical Center
I graduated from Lowell House in 2003 and completed my residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2013, and started work as a primary care physician in late 2013 at South Shore Medical Center. Prior to medical school, I taught with Teach for America and...
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Venki Murthy

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
I was born and grew up in southern India. After completing my bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, I came to the US for graduate work. In graduate school at the University of Washington (Seattle), my...
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Akila Muthukumar

Resident Tutor
MD Candidate, Harvard Medical School
Hi Lowell! I’m a third-year student at HMS, and excited to be back as a Lowell tutor! I call Dallas, Texas home. In college, I concentrated in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology with an English secondary. I was also lucky enough to be in Lowell...
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Vinod Nambudiri

Non-Resident Tutor
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Program Director, Harvard Dermatology Residency Program
Since graduating from Lowell House in 2005, I completed a joint MD/MBA and am pursued my residency training in Internal Medicine and Dermatology. I spent my college time engaged in some biochem research, organizing Model UN conferences, and partaking in...
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Dylan Nguyễn

Non-resident Tutor
Sociology concentration advisor
Hello! I’m Dylan, a third-year PhD student in sociology and social policy. I’m broadly interested in race, place, and immigration, and through my research, I hope to understand how different community organizations and institutions contribute to...
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Katie O'Dair

University Marshal
Originally from Ohio, I have lived in the Boston area for 30 years and came to Harvard in 2016 after nearly three decades in higher education here in Boston working with students at Boston College, MIT, and Tufts University. As University Marshal, my job...
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Lucia O'Sullivan

Non-resident Tutor
MD Candidate, Harvard Medical School
Hi! My name is Lucia O'Sullivan, and I am a current M1 at HMS. I graduated from Bowdoin College in 2023 with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in English. At Bowdoin, I was also captain of the rowing team and conducted integrating machine learning with...
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Jerome Offord, Jr.

Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Antiracism
Expanding upon the library’s strong record of diversity initiatives, the AUL for Antiracism collaborates extensively to develop strategies for systemic change through the library’s workforce, services, collections, and spaces. Before joining Harvard...
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Priscilla Opoku-Yeboah

Non-Resident Tutor
DMD Candidate, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Hello! My name is Priscilla Opoku-Yeboah. I’m a DMD candidate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. I was born and raised in Northern Virginia. And I attended undergraduate at the University of Virginia. Some of my professional interests include AI...
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Tracy Palandjian

Affiliate
CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance
I graduated from the College with a degree in Economics in 1993 and received my MBA from HBS in 1997. I had been on a fairly predictable career path in the private sector (Management Consulting at McKinsey and Parthenon, Asset Management at Wellington)...
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Leon Palandjian

Affiliate
Economics, Business, Medicine
I received a BA in Economics from Harvard College in 1991, and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2000. My background is admittedly eclectic, I will lay it out there in case some of it is relevant to your interests. After college I worked in the...
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Annie Park

Allston Burr Resident Dean, Lowell House
Office: W120
617-495-2283
Hello Lowellians! I am thrilled for my sixth year in this amazing community as your Resident Dean! My role is to support you in your unique experience at Harvard, with the understanding that your personal, physical, mental, social, and spiritual well...
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David Parkes

George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science
I am a computer scientist and part economist, pursuing research and teaching classes on topics that arise at the intersections between artificial intelligence and microeconomics, especially related to market design, game theory, and the digital economy. I...
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Zoë Pearce

Non-Resident Tutor
MD Candidate, Harvard Medical School
Hi! I’m Zoë, a second-year medical student at Harvard with an interest in surgery and improving access to surgical care. I was born and raised in Jamaica and moved to Connecticut for high school; however, Massachusetts has since become my second-longest...
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Kitty Pechet

Affiliate
My Lowell House adventure began in 1960, when I moved into an all-male enclave as the young bride of then Senior Tutor, Maurice Pechet, and it continues in new directions. Today, I surf ocean waves and the artist’s canvas with enormous excitement, taking...
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Richard B. Peiser

Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development
Department of Urban Planning and Design
My primary research focuses on developing an understanding of the response of real estate developers to the marketplace and to the institutional environment in which they operate, particularly in the areas of urban redevelopment, affordable housing, and...
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Kate Penner

Undergraduate Science Research Advisor
Preceptor in Mathematics
I entered Harvard College with an interest in physics and graduated in 2007 with a concentration in government and a secondary field in economics. I made my way back to mathematics the long way, and am fascinated by how students learn and process math and...
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Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro

Lecturer in Psychology
Hello, Lowell House! I am a Lecturer in Psychology and a recently-admitted graduate student in Dramatic Arts (I know!). I was born and raised in Brazil, moved to Switzerland for my PhD, and then to Cambridge for my pre-doctoral internship. I have been in...
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