Tag: Wintersession 2013

  • Nation & World

    Technology to the classroom

    A two-week seminar in January offered Harvard doctoral students the chance to learn from experts from across the University about using technology to support education.

    6 minutes
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    A break for exploration

    For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.

    5 minutes
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    The joy of learning

    A video documents how some Harvard students spent their free time during Wintersession, the period between academic terms that fosters creative learning.

    2 minutes
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    26 immortal portals

    A January Arts Intensive in journalism explored the facts, fun, and stories behind Harvard Yard’s 26 gates, including architectural features that are little noticed by those who pass through them.

    8 minutes
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    Competition that computes

    It might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational Challenge, however, both are problems that can be tackled with some clever coding.

    3 minutes
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    On the nature of difference

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds discussed her book “The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics” before 50 students as part of Wintersession activities.

    4 minutes
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    Alums share big ideas

    Volunteerism — not whether, but how best to give back — was at the forefront of the “Alumni Think Big” conference session on Saturday, as eight Harvard graduates and one visiting practitioner presented their “Big Ideas That Will Change the World” at a Wintersession forum.

    6 minutes
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    Multimedia immersion

    During Wintersession, the Harvard College Library hosted a multimedia authoring “boot camp,” reflecting the increasingly essential use of media in academic work.

    3 minutes
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    ‘Public Interested?’

    Joseph P. Kennedy III kicked off Wintersession’s “Public Interested?” conference on Saturday, speaking about his life in public service and urging audience members to create their own careers by following their passions.

    4 minutes
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    Hack Week nurtures innovators

    Seventeen teams of Harvard students toiled on campus during the last days of winter break, working to finish computer projects during the annual Hack Week sponsored by the Hack Harvard student group.

    4 minutes
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    After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves

    Tom Wooten ’08 discussed his latest book, which profiles several grassroots recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

    4 minutes
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    An idea that changed the world

    Harvard celebrates the 100th anniversary of a computational principle that was little noticed in its time, but that underlies all of modern science.

    5 minutes