Currier House is one of the twelve undergraduate residences of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Opened in September 1970, it is named after Audrey Bruce Currier, a Harvard graduate. 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. Along with Cabot House and Pforzheimer House, Currier is part of the "Quad." In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... Harvard College is the main undergraduate section of Harvard University. ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Radcliffe College is the historical name of a womens educational institution closely associated with Harvard University, one of the Seven Sisters. ... Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. ... Cabot House is one of twelve upperclass undergraduate residences at Harvard University. ... Pforzheimer House, affectionately called PfoHo (and formerly named North House or NoHo), is an undergraduate residential House at Harvard University. ... The Quadrangle, looking north toward Pforzheimer House. ...

The current co-masters of Currier House are Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Badaracco and his wife Harvard College deputy dean Patricia O'Brien. Previous masters have included scholar of Islam William A. Graham, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dudley R. Herschbach, and classicist Gregory Nagy. Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University and one of the worlds leading management schools. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( ▶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932), a chemist and Frank B. Baird Jr. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Gregory Nagy (pronounced Nahjj) is a professor of Classics at Harvard, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. ...

Because of its distance from most of the other residential houses and its physical layout, which places most of the house's social space near the entrance, many Currier residents consider the house to have one of the strongest and most cohesive house communities of Harvard's residential houses.

In 2004-2005, Currier House won the Straus Cup for the first time in over twenty years. The cup is given to the house that scores the most points in intramural competition during the school year.

Famous alumni include Paul Attanasio, Steve Ballmer, Michael Chertoff, Bill Gates, and Yo-Yo Ma. Paul Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television. ... Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. ... Michael Chertoff Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security. ... William Henry Bill Gates III, KBE, (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worlds largest computer software company. ... Album cover Yo-Yo Ma (Chinese: 馬友友; Hanyu Pinyin: ) (born October 7, 1955) is a world-famous French-Chinese-American cellist. ...

Recently, Currier renovated its fishbowl to create an entertainment center complete with a big screen projector, surround sound system, and other amenities.

External link

• Currier House official site