Tag: Harvard Center Shanghai

  • Nation & World

    Looking to China for lessons on helping the poor

    Harvard scholar Nara Dillon is seeking lessons on poverty reduction from China’s success, part of Harvard’s long-running, broad engagement with the world’s most populous nation that continues over spring break when President Larry Bacow visits.

    7 minutes
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    Colleges have ‘special’ role in fighting climate change

    Harvard President Drew Faust tells an audience at Tsinghua University in Beijing that universities have a unique and critical role to play in combatting climate change.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A taste of Harvard in Shanghai

    Harvard Center Shanghai provides programming support, local expertise, and meeting space for Harvard researchers, students, and alumni in one of the world’s most dynamic cities.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard-Asia: Ties deep and broad

    Harvard President Drew Faust’s coming trip to South Korea and Hong Kong is framed against a long history of Harvard’s engagement with Asia’s many nations.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A monumental task

    Harvard’s Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program is making a digital scan of Harvard Yard’s Chinese stele as part of a conservation effort aimed at preserving the ornate gift from Harvard’s Chinese alumni on Harvard’s 300th birthday.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    China Fund offers internship, service opportunities in China

    Established in late 2006, the Harvard China Fund is Harvard’s “academic venture fund” for China. In service of the entire University, it supports teaching and research on China and promotes Harvard’s presence in China.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Executive director of Harvard Center Shanghai named

    Jeffrey R. Williams was named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai on Nov. 22.

    3 minutes
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    Harvard Center Shanghai opens its doors

    Intellectual inquiry and practical action were both on rich display at “Harvard and China: A Research Symposium,” a series of lectures, panels, and break out sessions held to mark the official opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai on March 18.

    4 minutes
  • 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.

    8 minutes