Tag: Harvard University Information Technology

  • Nation & World

    A step toward a more gender-inclusive Harvard

    Sherri Charleston and Nicole Merhill discuss an expanded set of self-identity options available to Harvard employees in PeopleSoft.

    7 minutes
    Nicole Merhill and Sherri Charleston
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    9 months in, University CIO sees security, new tech advances ahead

    Harvard Vice President and CIO Klara Jelinkova talks about the digital pivot Harvard had to make during the pandemic, lessons learned from it, and the growing threat of cybercrime.

    6 minutes
    Klara Jelinkova,
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    Extracurriculars for an online campus

    Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.

    3 minutes
    Woman doing yoga in front of laptop.
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    Turning Harvard virtual

    A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.

    6 minutes
    Multiple monitors.
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    A link across campus

    Harvard Link is an application that for the first time funnels University-related events, news, organizations, and faculty and staff contact information into a centralized data bank. The system then analyzes that data and creates personalized dashboards for users based on their professional interests.

    4 minutes
    Judy Singer (from left), Anne Margulies, and Dustin Tingley
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    Increasing digital accessibility

    As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the accessibility of its digital systems and communications to persons with disabilities, Harvard University today announced the adoption of a new, University-wide Digital Accessibility Policy. This policy is intended to increase the accessibility of Harvard’s public-facing websites and web-based applications, as well as the digital content that…

    5 minutes
    Computer keyboard symbolizing digital access
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    OpenScholar forms startup

    OpenScholar will become a startup to expand University’s versatile web-publishing platform to next level.

    4 minutes
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    Information, writ widely

    The Dataverse 4 catalog expands access to research, across many Web platforms, even globally.

    4 minutes
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    The modern opens the past

    In the inaugural lecture of a series organized by Harvard’s Digital Futures consortium, data-publishing entrepreneur Eric Kansa lays out a case for archaeology to “get on the map” of disciplines sharing data widely on the Web.

    7 minutes
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    Harvard Mobile expands

    A new version of the University-wide mobile application was released this month with a number of functional, design, and content enhancements.

    2 minutes
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    Exploring edX 1.0

    MIT’s Anant Agarwal, who is the first president of edX, shared early results from the new online education venture’s first pilot course at the second annual Harvard IT Summit.

    5 minutes
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    A step up through Year Up

    In the Year Up program, high school graduates and GED recipients are provided with six months of training in professional skills and education, followed by six-month internships at their corporate partners, including Harvard.

    6 minutes
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    For Harvard, an IT summit

    From across the University, members of the information technology community gathered for the first Harvard IT Summit.

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