Tag: Liberal Arts

  • Nation & World

    Parents make a weekend of it

    Families converged in Cambridge for Freshman Parents Weekend, the annual welcoming of parents that features faculty presentations, tours of the libraries and museums, and the opportunity to sit in on classes. Approximately 2,000 family members came to Harvard to visit their student over the weekend.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hoffman, Beerbohm win teaching prize

    Physicist Jenny Hoffman and political theorist Eric Beerbohm have won the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gen Ed connects the dots of life

    Harvard’s Program in General Education aims to tie what students learn at the College to the lives they will lead after graduation. A hit with both students and faculty, Gen Ed has expanded to more than 400 courses in less than three years, and now includes some of the most popular classes on campus.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Two are Abramson winners

    Kevin Eggan, associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, and David Elmer, assistant professor of the classics, are the winners of the 2011 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gift of opportunity

    Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Humanities 2.0

    A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    An education, not a job

    An undergraduate explains why she majors in psychology, even though she expects her career paths will take her to other fields.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Welcoming Gen Ed

    In a celebratory forum in Lowell Lecture Hall Sept. 3, Harvard President Drew Faust and others explain and extol Harvard’s new General Education requirements, which take effect this year with the Class of 2013.

    6 minutes