Tag: Extension School

  • Nation & World

    Need a book for your beach bag?

    Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.

    10 minutes
    Illustration of books on a beach
  • Nation & World

    Songwriter carries more than one tune

    Nima Samimi, recipient of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, is a jack of all trades and a master of at least a few, including academics, music, and social justice.

    6 minutes
    Samimi standing near a tree
  • Nation & World

    ‘From nowhere to somewhere’

    After surviving the slaughter in Darfur, Guy Josif Adam finds his way to Harvard Extension School with dreams of harnessing his education to transform Darfur and the wider turbulent region.

    9 minutes
    Guy Adam
  • Nation & World

    Staying curious for 40+ years

    Harvard University’s Tuition Assistance Program celebrates 40 years of offering lifelong learning.

    5 minutes
    Tuition Assistance Program alumna Laura Buso
  • Nation & World

    Sustainability front and center for Cousteau

    Philippe Cousteau talked about carrying on the family legacy of environmental advocacy in delivering the Extension School’s Lowell Lecture.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From ‘what we do’ to ‘whom we serve’

    Huntington Lambert, dean of the Harvard Extension School, discusses the highlights of his first three years on the job, the opportunities available to students through the Division of Continuing Education, and the role of digital technology in lifelong learning.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pfister named interim dean

    Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and dean of the Harvard Summer School, has been appointed interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister’s career at Harvard spans nearly 40 years.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Journalism, cinema-style

    A new summer film series on journalism opens with a documentary that asks: Will print, and original news reporting, survive the digital avalanche? “Meet John Doe,” presented by James Geary, Nieman ’12, will be shown July 9.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Another degree, and a passion realized

    Catherine Musinsky, an Extension School graduate, used a serious illness to inspire her artistry, creating a documentary and moving on to study movement.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mother/daughter graduate from Extension School

    They’re not exactly a “mother-daughter team,” but Rosemary Dowling, 79, of Dorchester, and her daughter, Rosemary McCarthy, 55, of Duxbury, graduated in tandem from the Harvard Extension School with their Bachelor of Liberal Arts (A.L.B.) degrees on June 7. Both Rosemarys worked on their degrees over the past 10 years, commuting together, and enrolling in…

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