Tag: Office of the Provost

  • Campus & Community

    A year in, University Accessibility Committee outlines progress, goals

    Last fall, Harvard’s Office of the Provost convened the first meeting of the University Accessibility Committee to share successful practices. The committee identified three main areas for its work: the student experience, digital technology, and on-campus facilities.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Spotlight on black identity

    A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.

  • Arts & Culture

    Marsalis to conclude lecture-performance series

    Wynton Marsalis will conclude his six-lecture series at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 30. Tickets, which are free, will be available for the Harvard community on Jan. 28 and the public on Jan. 29.

  • Arts & Culture

    Listen up, says Marsalis

    Students in a Boston high school sacrificed some of their precious spring break to spend time with master trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

  • Arts & Culture

    Jazz as conversation

    Artist and composer Wynton Marsalis returned to Sanders Theatre for his fourth lecture-performance at Harvard, an exploration of the strange alchemy of instinct, expertise, and empathy that jazz musicians need to “play and stay together.”

  • Campus & Community

    Marsalis returns to Sanders

    Wynton Marsalis is returning to Harvard to continue his two-year lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” with a talk on improvisation at Sanders Theatre on April 17.

  • Nation & World

    Up by his bootstraps

    Cambodian writer Tararith Kho, who grew up amid war and pushed relentlessly to be educated, is now a Harvard Scholars at Risk fellow. His weapons are well-turned words.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard opens outdoor rink

    As part of the University’s yearlong 375th anniversary celebration, Harvard launched Harvard Skate Jan. 17.

  • Arts & Culture

    In praise of America’s music

    As part of a two-year lecture and performance series, jazz great Wynton Marsalis performed with a seven-piece band at Sanders Theatre.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Thinks Big 2: Introductions

    Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis ’12 and Zachary Richner ’11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big

  • Campus & Community

    Bringing faculty together

    Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.

  • Campus & Community

    Friedman named director of Arboretum

    William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning in the labs

    This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.

  • Campus & Community

    New CIO for Harvard

    Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.

  • Arts & Culture

    Red hot for bluegrass

    Harvard hosts one-day symposium on bluegrass music, past and present on Saturday (Feb. 6).

  • Campus & Community

    Arts, humanities, and human rights

    On Sept. 24 the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies will host the annual Human Rights at Harvard Welcome Reception.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard China Fund announces fiscal year 2010 grant program

    The Harvard China Fund, under the Office of the Provost, has announced its fiscal year 2010 grants program for Harvard faculty, programs, and Schools. The purpose of the fund is to support interdisciplinary research and teaching in and about China, focus Harvard’s considerable strengths toward tackling the challenges that China faces, and improve communication and…

  • Nation & World

    Provost’s Fund for technology seeks proposals

    The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provost’s Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to…

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Walls of Tehran’ panels to explore art, propaganda

    An afternoon panel in association with “Walls of Martyrdom” — a photography exhibit of Tehran’s propaganda murals by Ph.D. candidate in public policy Fotini Christia — will be held May 18 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center, the Center for Middle Eastern…

  • Science & Tech

    Libraries, museums meet with IT

    The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources invisible to current search methods, a Harvard University Library official working on the Google project said on March 28.