Tag: Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement

  • Nation & World

    Democracy teetering on brink

    Danielle Allen says ordinary citizens need to step up, calls for formation of cross-ideological supermajority committed to revitalizing system

    5 minutes
    Danielle Allen (pictured) speaking on stage .
  • Nation & World

    Big problems, small solutions

    Author and activist Bill McKibben ’82 visited Harvard with a message: In the face of catastrophic climate change, it’s time for overt and energetic civil action.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Margaret Nast Lewis, 101, dies

    Margaret Nast Lewis, a former faculty member of the Harvard College Observatory, died in Cambridge on Nov. 23 at the age of 101.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Middle class woe

    The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists in a Harvard forum on April 27.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Probing the golden years

    In an aging society, Harvard researchers are plumbing the depths of what it means to have a larger proportion of the population elderly — and figuring out how to keep them healthy.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Easy blend of old and new

    A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.

    3 minutes