Tag: Global

  • Campus & Community

    Worldwide Week at Harvard brings it home

    Worldwide Week at Harvard Oct. 20‒27 will shine a bright light on the University’s international work.

    Lab in Durban, South Africa
  • Campus & Community

    Beyond the horizon

    Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.

  • Campus & Community

    A class open to the world

    Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations

  • Science & Tech

    Crime probe

    A Harvard engineering class helps find a metric for a computer scheme that tracks gang violence.

  • Nation & World

    Education’s future, globally

    Students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education convened last week to examine how to address some of the world’s educational challenges.

  • Health

    Twin dangers: Malnutrition and obesity

    Experts in nutrition gathered at Harvard Medical School to discuss the emerging “double burden” of malnutrition and obesity that is starting to affect the developing world.

  • Nation & World

    Thinking globally, differently

    Harvard students now represent more than 50 countries and a spectrum of cultures, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. Because of that, teaching is changing too, said speakers at Conversations@FAS, a faculty forum.

  • Health

    Plotting the demise of malaria

    Authorities on malaria from around the world came to Harvard Medical School to participate in a forum discussing a change in strategy in the battle against malaria, moving from control to eradication.

  • Science & Tech

    The looming water shortage

    The head of Nestlé explored ways to address a looming worldwide water crisis during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    Business School announces Tata gift; two initiatives

    A pair of building projects supported by the Harvard Business School takes aim at fostering leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

  • Nation & World

    Gordon Brown’s prescription

    Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hip-hop’s global reach

    A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.

  • Campus & Community

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bill Gates on the humanities

    Bill Gates speaks about the how the humanities impact global issues.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s lights out

    For the second consecutive year, Harvard University will join the city of Boston by turning out the lights for “Earth Hour,” a major community awareness event about climate change, taking place in Boston and cities worldwide.

  • Nation & World

    Beyond boundaries

    As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.

  • Nation & World

    The Haitian partnership

    Speakers, including Paul Farmer, discuss how Harvard offshoots can collaborate with Haitians to try to build some stability in the earthquake-battered nation.