Month: August 2016
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Nation & World
Harvard professor creates a course for the world
In this edition of EdCast, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers gives insight into a curriculum designed to empower all citizens of the world through his new book, “Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course.”
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Science & Tech
New way to model molecules
Scientists from Harvard and Google have demonstrated for the first time that a quantum computer could be used to model the electron interactions in a complex molecule.
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Arts & Culture
The surprising women of Iran
Photojournalist Randy H. Goodman was America’s eyes during the Iran hostage Crisis in 1980. Now, after a return trip in 2015, her exhibit “Iran: Women Only” is on display at CGIS Knafel.
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Campus & Community
Harvard fencer heads for Olympics
There’s “no crying in baseball,” actor Tom Hanks famously quipped in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” but some fencers have been known to shed a tear. Just…
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Campus & Community
Connecting with science
Students from the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing came to campus for an ice cream-oriented science lesson.
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Science & Tech
Between Cuba and Harvard, an uncommon garden
Historian Leida Fernandez-Prieto came to Cambridge to research a Cuban botanical garden with Harvard roots.