Featured series 
Tag: Harvard Ed Portal
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Campus & Community
Science lesson brings sweet rewards
Harvard’s “Science and Cooking for Kids” program showed local children the snap behind the chocolate and the role chemistry plays in the process.
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Campus & Community
For small businesses, a good guide is a good start
Former SBA administrator Karen Mills spoke about innovation and small business growth as part of her Ed Portal lecture, encouraging local small business owners to use the resources available at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A different view of the universe
A project between Harvard and Boston Public Schools through the WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors Program is inspiring young students to get involved with science and explore more than just outer space.
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Campus & Community
A pathway to success
The Allston Brighton Adult Education Collaborative brings together social services and organizations to help local residents improve their lives and prospects.
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Campus & Community
Spiders to the rescue
During an instructive session at the Harvard Ed Portal, elementary school students learned the benefits of helpful spiders.
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Arts & Culture
Trash becomes treasure, becomes art
Allston artist Konstantin Simun’s sculptures are inspired by his environment. His work is on display at the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery.
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Campus & Community
A course that keeps teaching
Educators gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal for Data Wise, a new HarvardX course that will transform classroom dynamics and build “collaborative inquiry” among teachers. The Data Wise Leadership Institute will begin in June.
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Campus & Community
Changing a community, from the ground up
Seven area residents were honored at the annual Allston-Brighton Legislators’ Breakfast by local elected officials and the Allston-Brighton Adult Education Coalition for their ongoing work in the community.
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Campus & Community
A place where startups begin
Harvard Business School, the Ed Portal, and the Harvard i-lab gave 30 local high school students front-row seats to how entrepreneurship works.
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Health
How our bodies harness energy
Robert A. Lue, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, offered his audience insight into his upcoming HarvardX course “Cell Biology: Mitochondria,” during a talk on April 21.
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Nation & World
Building a discussion around the Memorial Church
Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, used Harvard’s Memorial Church as a focal point in kicking off her discussion on religion. Moore spoke as part of the Harvard Ed Portal’s faculty series.
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Campus & Community
The costs of inequality: Across Harvard, efforts to improve lives
Harvard offers myriad programs to alleviate the inequality gap within the University, from neighboring communities to overseas.
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Campus & Community
Culture and community come together
Harvard Ed Portal filled its Cultural Connections evening with student groups that performed for an enamored audience in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares the simplicity behind daily changes
At an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Donald Goldmann challenged his audience to be curious about how they do everyday tasks, helping them explore “improvement science.”
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Campus & Community
Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried drew from his HarvardX course, “Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract,” at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of its
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Campus & Community
Exploring paths to college
To bring that dream of opportunity to Boston, Harvard undergrads, local educators, and parents from Allston, Brighton, and Cambridge gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal on Oct. 29 to explore paths to college.
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Campus & Community
Ebola outbreak: A system that failed
During an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Ashish Jha examined where the global health system failed when Ebola began to spread.
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Campus & Community
Science to chew on
Local children learn the scientific principles behind cooking food.
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Campus & Community
It’s all about that bass
Local students learn how the body talks to the brain — by making bugs dance — at the Harvard Ed Portal.
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Campus & Community
A brighter future together
A young students’ leadership group from Boston celebrates its success stories during a commencement gathering at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Disabilities, pushed to the side
Students with disabilities explain how they got to Harvard in a book by Professor Thomas Hehir, Ed.D. ’90, and co-authors, including Laura Schifter, Ed.D. ’14, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hehir and Schifter shared some of the stories in a recent talk at the Ed Portal.
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Campus & Community
Scholarship of things
Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.
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Campus & Community
A call for ideas
Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
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Arts & Culture
The mystery of Mahler
American audiences quickly embraced the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler when he moved to the United States, and to a surprising degree, lecturer Federico Cortese told an Ed Portal audience.
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Campus & Community
Earning a bachelor’s degree the new way
Jonathan Haber documented his year of studying philosophy, detailing his experience completing the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree using Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, and other forms of free learning.
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Campus & Community
Buoyant welcome for Ed Portal reboot
The reimagined Harvard Ed Portal, a 12,000-square-foot space devoted to teaching and innovation, opened its doors Feb. 21 at Western Avenue and North Harvard Street in Allston.
