Tag: Online

  • Nation & World

    Playing our song

    Samuel Mehr has long been interested in questions of what music is, how music works, and why music exists. To help find the answers, he’s created the Music Lab, an online, citizen-science project aimed at understanding not just how the human mind interprets music, but why music is a virtually ubiquitous feature of human societies.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Business School expands online

    Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A break to explore

    January@GSAS offered more than 100 classes, seminars, and training sessions to students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during semester break. Students had the chance to escape the lab or library, and spend time exploring subjects that might not otherwise appear in a Harvard course catalog.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From impostors to chocolate

    For hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January included financial-planning seminars, classes about the history and politics of chocolate, and workshops on answering tough questions in job interviews.

    5 minutes