Electronic mail and the Internet have become integral parts of our daily lives. These and other digital tools already have profoundly affected scholarship and learning at Harvard. Thousands of courses…
Harvards Extension School began experiments with distance learning as early as the 1950s, offering courses via educational television. In the 1960s, the experiments continued, with classes offered via kinescope to…
A memorial service for Susanah Bailie Trautman will be held on June 2 at 10 a.m. in the Memorial Church, Harvard University. She was the wife of the late Donald…
In preparation for the upcoming renovations of University Hall, all departments in the building will be temporarily relocated. University Hall will close for business at the end of the day,…
Do you have a passion for art? Do you enjoy working with young people? Do you want to make a contribution to your community? If you answered yes, and you…
Weve all learned the language of computers, with their bits and bytes and RAM and ROM, not to mention hard drives and software, printers and ports, and most importantly: tech…
A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge on Thursday, June 8, 2000. For the twelfth consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has named Sameh Naguib Wahba as the John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow for 2000-01. The fellowship carries a stipend of $10,000…
2000 Goldwater Scholars announced Four Harvard students are among 309 U.S. sophomores and juniors selected as Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2000-01 academic year. The students, with their houses…
The technological revolution has spurred an array of educational changes that are modifying how students and instructors interact in a traditional classroom setting and creating new stay-at-home students for whom…
Distance learning and instructional technology are already all around us at Harvard and they have been for a while. Following are several examples of current programs involving the use…
After teaching Microeconomic Theory for 14 years, Jeffrey Wolcowitz, senior lecturer on economics and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences associate dean for undergraduate education, decided in 1998 to rethink…
When the CEO of Click n Pick needs someone to clarify the companys murky financial picture, who does he come to? Harvard Business School students well, actually future Harvard…
As technology advances, educational entrepreneurs are taking advantage of new ways to reach potential students. Following are some recent examples of Internet-based learning venures: UNext: Michael Milken-inspired online venture involving…
One of Harvards and Bostons most popular summer activities, the Tennis Camps at Harvard, will be opening its 10th season on June 12 at the new Robert M.…
Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) congratulates 25-year Harvard employee Bertha Demirjian, who works at the Admissions and Financial Aid Office. Demirjian has worked in different departments within Harvard…
Radcliffe and Harvard crews advanced to the Grand Finals in all six of the major divisions at the 55th annual Eastern Sprints Championships, held May 21, on Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond,…
Scientists have gotten the closest look yet at the inner works of biological clocks that drive our natural sleep-wake cycle. Theyre surprised at how complicated the mechanism is. Steven Reppert…
Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) congratulates 25-year Harvard employee Bertha Demirjian, who works at the Admissions and Financial Aid Office. Demirjian has worked in different departments within Harvard…
On a festive occasion marking John Finley’s retirement as Master of Eliot House in 1968, an admiring colleague evoked the mythical image of Cheiron, the wise centaur who was teacher…
It is 2 p.m. at Graham & Parks School in Central Square. Susan McCray passes out a letter to each student in her seventh-grade homeroom. Tension was building as the…
Sixty-four undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The Prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19, a firearms expert…
Just how and how much is the dotcom world changing our lives? In a V.I.P.-studded attempt to answer this question, the Harvard community is hosting the third Internet…
“I am reducing everything to its maximum.” This was Earl Kim’s way of describing his own music and the compositional processes and aesthetic which assured its distinctive, individual character. Spare,…
The password isn’t “open sesame” but the new cyber-gateway into Harvard databases still seems like something of a marvel (at least to the non-techies among us). Paul Martin, dean for…
Twelve international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They will join twelve U.S. journalists whose names were announced earlier in May to make up the…
Two from Harvard named Carnegie Scholars Two Harvard professors were among 12 leading researchers in American universities who have been named Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation. Caroline Hoxby, Morris…
“No one person deserves credit for all of that, and Neil would be the last person to claim it,” Stone said. “But, more than anyone else this past decade, he…
“[President Clinton] appreciates Neil Rudenstine’s leadership at Harvard, particularly his commitment to federal research and science and technology and also his efforts to expand the African-American Studies department there.” —White…
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