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Creating a healthy America doesn’t end with insurance reform
For the first time in history, many children in the United States may be facing shorter, sicker lives than their parents. While improving access to health care is essential, insurance…
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Prep squad: How faculty get ready for the new school year
Think only students fret at the start of a new school year? Think again. By the time September rolls around, Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members have already spent…
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Rappaport fellows get hands-on government experience in Greater Boston
As a group of Boston-area graduate students discovered this summer, there is truth in the adage that if you want to change the world, you can start in your own…
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SEAS Dean Cherry A. Murray kicks off the new academic year
On Friday, September 10, Cherry A. Murray, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied…
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GSD students, alumni, receive ASLA Awards
The ASLA Awards for 2010 selected two GSD student projects for Honor Awards, and an additional student project received the Award of Excellence. GSD Alumni were also widely recognized for…
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What did you do this summer? Ash fellows worked for city offices around country
This summer, Ash Center Fellows in Innovation rolled up their sleeves and got to work, supporting unique education, government, and service initiatives in cities around the country. Sunlight is the…
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Recent HKS graduate Mallika Kaur awarded travel fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10 the 2010-11 Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. The competitive fellowship is awarded to one graduate from across Harvard. First nominated…
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Working 9 to 5 at Harvard and beyond
Before the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, there was 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. Founded in 1972 by Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum, then clerical…
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Center for European Studies welcomes its fall fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is pleased to announce the arrival of its 2010 fall fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history,…
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HKS’ Meghan O’Sullivan makes case for continued U.S. engagement in Iraq
The United States is ending its combat mission in Iraq, but the U.S. will remain involved in helping the country transition to a stable and peaceful democracy. That was the…
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Visiting scholar finds collections and service in Middle Eastern Division
While preparing his thesis on the rise of nationalist thinking among a rarely studied Middle Eastern Christian minority group who speak Syriac as a common language, Raid Gharib, a Ph.D.…
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Grab a seat, it’s ‘The Chair Revue’
Forget Shakespeare in the park. Try performances in the Yard. Every Tuesday and Friday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., members of the Harvard community will stage lunchtime shows outside of…
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New name marks evolution of PSP Program at HGSE
What’s in a name? For faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), everything. Earlier this summer, Dean Kathleen McCartney announced the Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) Program, formerly…
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Five SEAS computer science students named 2011 Siebel Scholars
Five stellar students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) were named among the recipients of the 2011 Siebel Scholars…
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Lene Hau named World Dane 2010
Lene Vestergaard Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics in the Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard, was named “World Dane…
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Distinguished journalists, news anchor, and Internet visionary spend fall at HKS
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be enriched by new fellows, a writer-in-residence and visiting faculty…
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Managers’ attitudes toward work-family issues can affect employees’ health
As the United States’ workforce grows more diverse, an increasing number of Americans are balancing work and family responsibilities. In a paper appearing in a recent issue of the Journal…
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Harvard’s Library Lab issues call for proposals from students, faculty, and staff
The University’s newly created Library Lab is inviting students, faculty, and staff to collaborate with the Harvard Libraries and serve as co-creators of the information society of the future. The…
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New Ash Center report lauds successes, proposes reforms for Indonesia
Formerly an authoritarian state, Indonesia has made impressive gains over the last 10 years as the world’s first majority Muslim, multi-party democracy. The country’s successes and challenges as a new…
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Ash Center welcomes new fellows
Today the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University announced its student and executive fellows to the 2010-2011 academic…
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Library a hit at Dudley Fest
Whether graduate students need research guidance, help locating and accessing resources online, materials for teaching classes, or even library materials scanned and delivered to them electronically, Harvard librarians can help.…
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The Cambridge Harvard Summer Academy: Where everyone learns
The typical summer school is often considered a one-way street. Teachers teach and students learn. However, as the following video shows, the Cambridge Harvard Summer Academy is a different breed…
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U.S. hospitals making only modest gains in adoption of electronic health records
Transforming the U.S. health care system from paper-based to electronic-based may improve health care quality and reduce costs, but a new study in Health Affairs by researchers from the Harvard…
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Visiting scholar and fellows welcomed at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center
A former United Nations Assistant Secretary General and a former economic adviser to President Toledo of Peru are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this fall at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center…
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SEAS faculty to light up the tube
Faculty from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are definitely ready for their close-ups. Researchers will appear on the national cable channel The Food Network, and on…
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“Cabaret” weekend at the Brattle Theatre
The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming production of Cabaret has inspired The Brattle Theatre to present a film series this weekend that are connected to the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret based…
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Public, teachers divided in support for merit pay, teacher tenure, race to the top
The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader…
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FSC-Harvard fellows Paravel & Sniadecki win Locarno film awards
The Film Study Center is pleased to announce that FSC-Harvard fellows Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki have been awarded the Pardo for Best First Feature and the Special CINÉ CINÉMA…
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Science & Cooking
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is pleased to present the kick-off event to the Science & Cooking public lectures series on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. The…
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Adrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology…