Tag: Jack Shonkoff

  • Nation & World

    Princess makes most of Harvard visit

    On Friday, the Princess of Wales visited Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child as part of a visit to the U.S.

    5 minutes
    Larry Bacow, Bridget Long, Sumbul Siddiqui, Princess of Wales , Jack Shonkoff.
  • Nation & World

    Following his passion

    Last month, Tim Linden strolled the streets of São Paulo, close to his home and not far from Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ Brazil office, where he works as an analyst. He talked about his longstanding connection to the center and his work with underserved children.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Search for Ed School dean begins

    President Drew Faust today named an advisory group and invited the community for its input in assisting her in the search for a new dean for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Kathleen McCartney will be concluding her service as HGSE dean at the end of the spring term.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Learning better

    In an event at the Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, author Ellen Galinsky talked to principals, child-care providers, and parents about the “seven essential life skills every child needs.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Memories are made of this

    In a lecture, neuroscientist Eric Kandel ’52 said that researchers have learned that short-term memory, the ability to recall things for minutes or hours, is fundamentally different from long-term memory, which holds information for weeks, months, even a lifetime.

    3 minutes