Featured series 
Tag: Education
-
Campus & Community
Shinagel awarded honorary degree
The Academic Board of Universidad Alta Direccion (Panama) voted to award a doctoral degree honoris causa to Michael Shinagel, dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, in recognition of his “outstanding job in educating executives all over Central and South America.” Hailed as “a remarkable educator,” Shinagel received his diploma from the Universidad Alta Direccion…
-
Campus & Community
Michael Sandel honored at APSA meeting
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel was honored by the American Political Science Association Aug. 30 at the group’s annual meeting in Boston.
-
Campus & Community
BSC set to offer course in reading, study strategies
This fall, the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) will present the Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies. Harvard’s longest continuously running course uses readings, films, and classroom exercises to aid students in reading more purposefully and selectively, while gaining greater speed and comprehension.
-
Campus & Community
Herschbach, Bisson to assume new roles in Harvard College
Georgene Herschbach, a longtime member of the Harvard community who has served the campus in a wide range of capacities, has been named to the new position of dean for administration in Harvard College, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education, jointly announced Aug. 19.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard Allston Education Portal opens doors to neighbors
The Harvard Allston Education Portal, a new resource center designed to be a bridge between North Allston/North Brighton residents and Harvard teaching and learning, opened its doors last week (July 14) with mentoring for area children and a science movie night for families.
-
Campus & Community
Business School summer program offers world of possibilities
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Harvard Business School (HBS) professors started a program they hoped would change lives. Their wish has come true.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard benefactor Katherine Loker dies at 92
Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, a major Harvard benefactor and one of the nation’s most active and generous supporters of higher education, died June 26 in Oceanside, Calif. She had suffered a massive stroke earlier in the week.
-
Campus & Community
Assessing the assessments
Educational testing is a fundamental part of the educational system in the United States, but many argue that far too much emphasis is placed on it. One influential voice in the lively, often contentious, testing debate belongs to Daniel Koretz, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), whose research focuses on…
-
Campus & Community
Turning Crimson to gold
The Crimson Summer Academy provides yearlong mentoring to economically disadvantaged high school students in Boston and Cambridge.
-
Campus & Community
HGSE presents Conant Fellowships
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) presented five educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on Monday (June 9). Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the School.
-
Health
HSPH student takes aim at AIDS with statistics
Bethany Hedt has always been in love with numbers. Her challenge has been finding a way to feed that love while fulfilling an equally strong drive to help the people around her.
-
Campus & Community
Affordable Harvard: A year of financial aid initiatives
Last November, Louis McAlister sat in the back of a motel ballroom in Bluefield, W.Va., working on his laptop.
-
Science & Tech
New journal highlights undergraduate research
Spanning topics as diverse as cancerous tumors and the overfishing of grouper in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a new journal aims to highlight the serious scientific research regularly undertaken…
-
Health
New Rx for doctors: Go back to school
This year six doctors are pursuing a one-year master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The students are all part of the School’s flexible Special Study Program that allows them to design their own curriculum and tailor it to their individual interests.
-
Nation & World
Princess Zahra outlines the work of Aga Khan Development Network
Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94 came home to Harvard this week (May 13) to present a hopeful vision of what education in the developing world can be like.
-
Campus & Community
Undergraduate teaching recognized
Every spring, the Roslyn Abramson Awards recognize assistant and associate professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching. This year’s winners are Lisa Brooks, assistant professor of history and literature and of folklore and mythology, and David Parkes, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences.
-
Nation & World
Excellence in teaching is recognized
Allan M. Brandt acknowledged the pedagogical achievements of Harvard’s graduate students, as well as preceptors, lecturers, and undergraduate course assistants at the biannual Teaching Excellence Awards Reception last Thursday (April 24).
-
Nation & World
Cronin takes long view of Boston schools, from busing to the MCAS
Joseph Cronin ’56, MAT ’57, came to Harvard on April 16 to examine the Boston Public Schools system’s struggles and successes over the past 76 years, detailed in his new book, “Reforming Boston Schools, 1930-2006: Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
-
Campus & Community
David Rockefeller gives $100 million for Harvard undergraduate programs
David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime University benefactor, has pledged $100 million to increase learning opportunities dramatically for Harvard undergraduates through international experiences and participation in the arts.
-
Nation & World
Film insists U.S. educational system is in critical condition
Last month Bill Gates warned Congress that the United States is dangerously close to losing its competitive edge due to a serious shortage of scientists and engineers. The problem required in part, said the Microsoft founder, a revamping of the country’s educational system.
-
Campus & Community
Eleven HILR students honored for dedication
University Marshal Jackie O’Neill honored 11 members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) last week for their dedication to lifelong learning. The April 4 ceremony was held at the Harvard Faculty Club and was attended by friends and family of the honorees, who are all near or actual nonagenarians. Also in attendance…
-
Science & Tech
Jeremy Knowles, eminent chemist, Harvard leader, 72
SUBHEAD By XXXXXXXXX Harvard News Office –> Jeremy R. Knowles, an eminent chemist and longtime leader of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, died April 3 at his home in…
-
Health
Link between deep sleep and visual learning
A relationship has been observed between deep sleep and the ability of the brain to learn specific tasks. Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have now shown that the processes that regulates deep sleep may affect visual learning. These results are published in the March 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
-
Nation & World
‘Baby College’ and beyond
Geoffrey Canada — author, educator, psychologist, motivator, poet, black belt, sometime comedian, and founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone — spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of about 300 in the packed Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall last week (March 12).
-
Nation & World
Provost’s Fund for technology seeks proposals
The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provost’s Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to…
-
Campus & Community
Local superintendents, Faust share ideas
Harvard President Drew Faust met with public school superintendents and professional associates from Boston area schools on Feb. 8 to share ideas about, among other things, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and preparing students from preschool through college and beyond.
-
Campus & Community
H-Link will connect students in same classes
In response to student requests and the evolving ways students are using technology to communicate with each other, Harvard University is creating H-Link, a Web application that connects students’ courses and classmates with their Facebook accounts, which will be available starting Feb. 25. Facebook is an Internet “social utility” very popular among high school and…
-
Campus & Community
Appointments
HUAM appoints Williams first director of education, Lawry appointed senior research fellow at Hauser Center
-
Campus & Community
In brief
Bok Center offering half time postdoc fellowship, HSPH symposium to tackle thorny international health issues, Grants, fellowships available to HMS members, HSPH announces new scholarship opportunity, Docent-led tour at Semitic Museum upcoming, HMS center honors trio for global environmental efforts, Center for Wellness and Health announces spring bounty
-
Nation & World
Brazilian Studies welcomes ambassador
The Brazilian ambassador to the United States, Antonio Patriota, will visit Harvard on Feb. 13 to participate in the University’s new and dynamic Brazil Studies Program’s spring 2008 calendar of events. The ambassador will speak about relations between Brazil and the United States and the new role of Brazil in the global economy and in…