Tag: Adolescent development

  • Nation & World

    Parents are so wrong about teenage sleep and health

    Harvard-affiliated study upends common myths around melatonin, weekends, school start times.

    3 minutes
    High school student asleep on desk.
  • Nation & World

    Gen Ed connects the dots of life

    Harvard’s Program in General Education aims to tie what students learn at the College to the lives they will lead after graduation. A hit with both students and faculty, Gen Ed has expanded to more than 400 courses in less than three years, and now includes some of the most popular classes on campus.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Stuart T. Hauser

    Stuart T. Hauser, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally acclaimed expert in adolescent development, died at age 70 on August 5, 2008, of complications following surgery for esophageal cancer. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Judge Baker Children’s Center, and Co-Director of the Clinical Research Training Program in Social and Biological…

    8 minutes