Featured series 
Tag: Ed Portal
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Arts & Culture
A gallery of their own
Four artists who happen to work at Harvard during their other hours say why the creative arts are important to theme.
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Campus & Community
‘In mens sana, in corpore sano’ — even in fourth grade
College students helped read Lindsey Metcalf’s “No Voice Too Small” and talked about the importance of staying active, even when school is at home.
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Arts & Culture
Leaving a mark on campus
The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.
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Campus & Community
Summer explorers
For the fourth year, Harvard’s Summer Explorations helped local students stay sharp over the school break while learning in free weeklong workshops at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Mentors make the difference
Over seven years, Professor of Education Roberto Gonzales interviewed thousands of undocumented young people who qualified for deferred action from deportation under DACA, and found that for high achievers among them, community and family mentors made the difference.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s Glaeser welcomes global shift to cities
City of Boston official Brian Golden joined Professor Edward Glaeser at the Ed Portal for a discussion focused on the future of cities.
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Health
A better way of living
Aaron Bernstein, associate director for Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, studies how changes in transportation, diet, and energy can immediately benefit health.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First expands into Allston
Arts First, the annual Harvard spring festival that begins Thursday, will make its debut on the other side of the river with concerts, exhibitions, and a historic work of theater.
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Arts & Culture
Tef Poe and friends ‘break bread’ at Ed Portal
More than 100 people attended a free performance by 10 hip-hop and soul artists, featuring a full rendition of Warren Center Fellow Tef Poe’s latest album, “Black Julian.”
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Campus & Community
Paving the way to entrepreneurship
Harvard-based program exposes high school students to the excitement and challenges of entrepreneurship.
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Arts & Culture
Creative momentum at the Ed Portal
Partnership between the University and the Allston-Brighton community has shaped a world of creativity and inspiration at the Harvard Ed Portal.
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Campus & Community
Tips on guiding parents through media maze
As part of the Harvard Ed Portal Faculty Speaker series, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Joe Blatt shared his research on ever-changing technology and media’s impact on children.
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Campus & Community
A pathway to success
The Allston Brighton Adult Education Collaborative brings together social services and organizations to help local residents improve their lives and prospects.
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Campus & Community
Spiders to the rescue
During an instructive session at the Harvard Ed Portal, elementary school students learned the benefits of helpful spiders.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads collecting degrees, heading abroad
Four graduating seniors will begin yearlong fellowships as part of the Fulbright Scholars program administered by the U.S. Department of State. Joy Ming, Tyreke White, and Amanda Reilly will all complete their studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year.
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Science & Tech
Science in the mix(er)
“Science and Cooking” was the topic of a HarvardX lecture offered at the new Harvard Ed Portal in Allston.
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Campus & Community
X marks the spot at Ed Portal
The Harvard Allston Education Portal featured another free seminar, this one part of its “in-person dialogue sessions” exploring the popular HeroesX series, an online class that focuses on the modern relevance of the “Ancient Greek Hero.”
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Campus & Community
Cultural Revolution comes to Allston
When Peter K. Bol was in college, a revolution halfway around the world changed his life. Bol, the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, explored the history of China at a HarvardX for Allston talk earlier this month at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
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Campus & Community
How it really happened
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed was at the Ed Portal to talk about her scholarship on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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Campus & Community
Five-year partnership strengthens ties
Five years after Harvard and Boston struck a community benefits cooperation agreement, the University’s neighbors in Allston-Brighton point to an enhanced partnership that has resulted in a vibrant Harvard Allston Education Portal, workforce preparation classes for adults, mentoring for students, and a wide variety of other programs.
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Campus & Community
The tools of art
Inspired by creative solutions that evolved in Colombia and Argentina, Harvard Professor Doris Sommer showed her Ed Portal audience how the arts could transform the ways in which a developing society perceived itself and the values inherent in its culture and community.
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Campus & Community
A Web browser in the heavens
During a star-filled night at the Ed Portal, Harvard astronomer Alyssa Goodman brought the WorldWide Telescope to Allston-Brighton.
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Campus & Community
Different perspectives
Professor Robin Kelsey talked about “performing for the camera” in a Harvard Allston Ed Portal lecture, part of its faculty speaker series.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Ed Portal
The Harvard Allston Education Portal “Showcase” drew nearly 100 people, including Ed Portal mentors, the Allston youngsters they’ve worked with, family members, and Harvard faculty and staff, to celebrate the conclusion of yet another semester of learning. Both mentees and mentors demonstrated the special connections that form at the Ed Portal and how contagious the…
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Campus & Community
Young minds well matched
The work of 100 Allston-Brighton children was on display during the eighth installment of the Harvard Allston Education Portal’s Student Showcase and Open House.
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Campus & Community
Sharing excitement for learning
Undergraduates who are mentors at the Harvard Allston Ed Portal say that in the end they learned as much as the young students they helped.
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Campus & Community
Overjoyed
Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
