Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers to get to breakthroughs
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, other luminaries share, and celebrate, vision for Kempner Institute.
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Nation & World
Exploring the dark, puzzling inner workings of Facebook
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who led the expose known as “The Facebook Files,” spoke about what he learned from his unsparing look behind the curtain at the internet giant.
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Campus & Community
Reach Every Reader targets early literacy crisis
With a $30 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative will launch Reach Every Reader, which combines cutting-edge education and neuroscience research to help end the childhood literacy crisis.
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Campus & Community
Removing barriers to public service
Harvard College announced a $12.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost the College’s efforts to develop the next generation of public service leaders.
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Campus & Community
Among the graduates
This 360 video puts you in the shoes of a Harvard student experiencing graduation as it unfolds.
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Campus & Community
Create a sense of purpose for all, Zuckerberg urges
One of Harvard’s most famous dropouts returned to receive a degree and encourage the Class of 2017 to go out and make a difference in the world.
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Campus & Community
Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement address at Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg’s speech (as written) for Harvard’s 366th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees
Harvard’s Afternoon Program speaker Mark Zuckerberg will be among the 10 who will receive honorary degrees during the University’s 366th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Zuckerberg named Commencement speaker
Internet leader and philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg is the featured speaker at Harvard’s 366th Commencement on May 25.
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Nation & World
What ‘The Prize’ taught Newark, and its author
Harvard EdCast interviews Dale Russakoff, author of “The Prize.” The Washington Post reporter, who looked at the troubled education reform story of Newark, N.J., reflected on what can be learned from its failure to provide system-wide reform.
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Science & Tech
Ghosts in the machines
Best-selling author Walter Isaacson ’74 talks about the history of the computer and the Internet.
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Campus & Community
Lurie wins award
Harvard mathematics Professor Jacob Lurie has been named one of five inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for outstanding achievement in his field. Honorees will each receive a trophy and $3 million prize at a ceremony this fall.
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Nation & World
Facebook, 10 years after
Professor Jonathan Zittrain, founder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, talks about Facebook’s past, present, and future as it turns 10 years old.
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Campus & Community
Midyear graduates recognized
More than 100 Harvard students, along with their families and friends, gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Dec. 6 to celebrate the 2012-13 Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The event recognized students who graduate in November or March, off the usual Commencement cycle.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s startup upstart
Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.