Tag: Facebook
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Campus & Community
With Visitas canceled, Harvard improvises
As a region-wide lockdown closed Harvard, University officials struggled with the difficult decision to cancel Visitas, Harvard College’s program for newly admitted students. Members of the Harvard community used social media to reach out to those who had planned to attend the event.
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Nation & World
‘Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit’
This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to…
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Campus & Community
Following the story
Melissa Block ’83, the host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” returned to campus to discuss her career and the changing landscape of digital media.
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Arts & Culture
Truth, beauty, goodness
In his latest book, prolific Professor Howard Gardner insists that the enduring values of truth, beauty, and goodness remain humanity’s bedrock.
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Science & Tech
Tracking your friends and idols
Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.
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Science & Tech
Student projects win $50,000 in grants
Student entrepreneurs at Harvard have won $50,000 in grants to support further development of innovative ventures in the Harvard College Innovation Challenge.
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Science & Tech
Innovate, create
From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.
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Science & Tech
By the numbers
Thanks to the digital revolution, Harvard is developing a legion of cyberspace fans in the world of social media.
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Science & Tech
Race plays minor role in Facebook friendships
Race may not be as important as previously thought in determining who befriends whom, suggests a study of Facebook habits by sociologists from Harvard and UCLA.
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Nation & World
Business School boost
A group of college undergraduates from around the country took part in a weeklong summer program at Harvard Business School in June designed to help them explore the business school environment through the HBS case method.
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Campus & Community
Running his buns off
A student tries to help an educational nonprofit by combining two of his passions, burgers and running.
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Campus & Community
Bringing sexy back to Harvard
Looking dapper under the bright lights of New College Theatre, Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year Justin Timberlake took his roast like a man, like only a sexy man can: In pink heels and a platinum blonde wig.
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Campus & Community
PBHA vies for $1 million award
The good deeds of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are being handsomely rewarded through a Facebook contest grant, and there may be more assistance in the wings.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School
When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.