Overview
The Deborah Pan class notes and essays, dating from around 1990 to 1992, provide insight into the academic life of a Harvard undergraduate. Pan’s meticulous handwritten notes document Harvard classes in Physics, Math, Anthropology, Ancient Chinese Art and Religion, and Chinese History.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1990-1992
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The Deborah Pan class notes and essays are open for research.
Extent
0.35 cubic feet (1 document box)The Deborah Pan class notes and essays contain a selection of Pan's notebooks and essays from her time as a Harvard undergraduate, dating from about 1990 to 1992. The notebooks include dated lecture notes and document classes in Physics, Math, Anthropology, Ancient Chinese Art and Religion, and Chinese History. Pan's notes are very legible and visually appealing, with different colors of ink, careful sketches, and diagrams. The notebooks almost exclusively focus on academic work with very little reference to Pan's personal life. Grades, a note from a friend, and marginalia in Chinese can be found towards the end of some notebooks. The Spring 1992 notebook offers a brief glimpse into Pan's life outside of class via two daily activity schedules, a term budget featuring income made through the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Tutoring program, and notes on graduate programs.
Pan was a successful student, receiving high marks on her written work. Her essays for Ancient Chinese Art and Religion analyze Chinese religious art objects such as vases and bronzes. Her essays for Historical Studies B02 analyze the relationship between ancient Chinese material culture and society. All essays are graded and include professor feedback.
Biographical Note
Surgeon Deborah Pan received an AB in Biological Anthropology from Harvard College in 1993. As an undergraduate she was a member of the Phillips Brooks House Association (1989-1993). Her senior thesis "Mitochondrial DNA and Evolution: A reconstruction of hominoid phylogeny" was awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarly research.
Pan went on to receive an MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1997) and completed her general surgery and plastic surgery residencies at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut (2003). Following graduation, she traveled internationally providing plastic surgery to those in need. Pan served as an attending surgeon for Healing the Children in Colombia and Thailand (2004-2005) and for the youth organization Tulong Sa Kapwa in the Philippines (2006-2010).
In 2006 she founded Esana Plastic Surgery Center and MedSpa in New Haven, Connecticut, where she specializes in abdominoplasty, breast augmentation, and non-invasive treatments.
Arrangement
The records are arranged in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Deborah Pan, October 2018; accession 2019.145
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Jehan Sinclair in May 2019. Folder titles and dates in brackets were devised by the archivist.
Creator
- Title
- Pan, Deborah (AB, Harvard College, 1993). Deborah Pan class notes and essays, circa 1990-1992: an inventory
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hua10019
Repository Details
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