Tag: Harvard Extension School

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    A full-time job fighting hate

    The ADL’s Evan Bernstein believes hate can be countered with a better understanding of the connected world in which we live.

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    Harvard awards 8,042 degrees and certificates

    Harvard University awarded a total of 8,042 degrees and certificates over the 2017–18 academic year.

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    From playing a DA on TV to running for Congress

    Former model and “Law & Order: SVU” actress Diane Neal is using what she learned at Harvard to fuel a run for office.

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    From heart-sick and road-weary to Harvard

    After James Venable graduates in May with his bachelor’s degree, he heads to Yale Divinity School to work on a master’s degree in divinity, with plans to return to Harvard for a master’s in theological studies, and go on to Princeton for a doctorate in African-American religion.

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    At Extension School, a sustainable program grows

    As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, the Harvard Extension School’s Sustainability Program has grown in exponential increments.

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    Extending themselves for half a century

    Two of the original members of the Harvard Extension Alumni Association look back on the School and the association to which they have given 50 years — and received much in return.

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    Women rising, because they have to

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Swanee Hunt discussed the lessons learned from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide — key among them, empowering women — in advance of “Women Rising, Here and Abroad,” her talk as the Lowell lecturer at Harvard Extension School.

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    Frida the artist before Frida the icon

    A course on Frida Kahlo helped students understand the context in which the Mexican painter developed her works and how she became a cult icon.

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    7,066 degrees and certificates awarded at Harvard’s 366th Commencement

    Today the University awarded a total of 7,066 degrees and certificates.

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    Being ‘smart’ about her education

    Amanda Rich found the Harvard Extension School a perfect landing spot for her third degree.

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    Reporting live from the front lines of history

    Ann Compton talked about the landmark events she has covered in her 40-year career as an ABC News reporter and White House correspondent. Compton was the guest speaker at Harvard Extension School’s Lowell Lecture.

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    Seeing past disabilities in the job search

    Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind have teamed up to create a self-paced edX course that will educate recruiters and hiring managers in best practices when considering a job candidate with a disability.

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    Graceful exit

    Grace Scheibner, the first director of Harvard’s Commencement office, is stepping down after 24 years in the role.

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    Labors of love for scholar at heart

    Leo Damrosch has the relaxed air of a man six years into retirement. Since adding emeritus to his title as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Damrosch has won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World.” More recently, “Eternity’s Sunrise: The…

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    Dual investigator

    After switching careers from defense manufacturing to police work, Christos Hatzopoulos embarked on a third challenge: earning a master’s degree in history from the Harvard Extension School.

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    Joint degree at Extension School

    A new joint degree program for undergraduates and graduates at Harvard Extension School is designed for students with strong business experience.

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    With experience at his fingertips

    New York financial expert George Koo is hoping to use his degree in international relations to propel him to a Ph.D. and later a potential job at the White House helping guide financial policy.

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    Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014

    Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.

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    Constructive summer

    Harvard’s Summer School offers students young and old access to the University’s archives, museums, and libraries, as well as more than 300 courses.

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    At 71, he earns his third degree

    Henry Hacker, a lifelong collector, earned his third degree at 71, in museum studies at the Harvard Extension School.

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    Of masks and mirth

    Harvard students from across the University celebrated “One Harvard” at the fourth annual masquerade ball.

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    Sustainability, by degrees

    From urban wind farms to school gardens and better rice cultivation, a crush of capstone projects presented this week at Harvard Extension School offer strategies for slowing down environmental ills.

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    Creative, useful, and fun

    From a “Bad Basketball” fantasy league to software that helps partygoers communicate with DJs, students at Harvard’s introductory computer science course created a wide array of programs on display during the annual fair.

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    When depression and anxiety loom

    Two new books from Harvard Health Publications are aimed at people who have more than normal levels of anxiety and depression but fall short of clinical definitions.

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    ChinaX has global ambitions

    New HarvardX course will examine China’s history, politics, philosophy, and hopes to draw both local students and others overseas.

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    Extension School recognizes outstanding grads

    Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and exceptional faculty with numerous awards and prizes. Recipients may demonstrate outstanding initiative, character, and academic achievement; show dedication to the arts or public service; or, in regard to faculty, be lauded by their students for excellence in teaching.

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    A distance-learning pioneer

    As the new dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, Huntington D. Lambert is charged with continuing to blend technology with teaching and learning to serve highly motivated students who invest their time to advance their education through the Extension School, Summer School, Professional Development Programs, and the Institute for Learning in Retirement.

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    He strikes a key balance

    The teenage concert pianist Drew Petersen chose to attend Harvard Extension School to attain his bachelor’s because the flexibility of the program allowed him to continue pursuing his passion and his fulltime career in music.

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    ‘Beowulf,’ as it was told

    Steven Rozensk and Matthew Sergi have collaborated with the American Repertory Theater for a public reading of the epic poem “Beowulf” in its original Old English. There is a free reading from noon to 5 p.m. at the A.R.T. on April 25.

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    Meeting opportunities at the fair

    Attendance at the recent Harvard Start-Up Career Fair was up 65 percent from last year, indicating to Scott LaChapelle, assistant director of technology platforms and new employer development at the Office of Career Services, that the event resonated for both students and potential employers.

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