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A Design School Redesign
… On October 23 , the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced a … announcement of the curriculum change came as an abrupt surprise, and an unwelcome one. More than 200 students and …
New Study Finds Long-Lasting Influence of Early Education
… a new study has found that the effects of an excellent kindergarten education last into … was far more significant. The study's authors include professor of economics Raj Chetty and assistant professor in …
Studies Nature, Will Travel
… From the highest treetops to the tiniest anthills on the ground below, Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, has seen it all. An expert in … different species manage to fit together in these high-rise apartments called trees.” In addition to his …
Issue: January-February 2007
Yesterday's News
… 1921 Thirteen female students from the Graduate School of Education apply for tickets to the … of The Harvard Salient. Its editors all “commend free enterprise, limited government, a redoubtable national defense, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Radical Reviewing
… In 1979 , a voice on the radio attracted the attention of George Scialabba ’69. … persuasive, politically astute,” he recalls. “I was surprised to hear it was Noam Chomsky, whom I knew only as a …
Issue: November-December 2013
Staging Memory
… Odysseus does not want to remember the Trojan War. He does not want to remember the bloody … remain adrift? Through inventive stage mechanics and a dash of humor, the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) adaptation of The Odyssey explores how to live after tragedy. Odysseus …
Gearing Up for The Game
… Rafferty ’70 that opened in Manhattan just in time for the big game this weekend. Dargis calls the film … even for those who “routinely shun” the “pagan sacrament” of college football. (If you’re in Cambridge for the big … same year as the My Lai massacre and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy) and writes …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will welcome 52 fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year as part of its twenty-fifth anniversary class. The incoming … felt more certain that Radcliffe’s approach—its embrace of interdisciplinary research and discourse across …
Land of Honesty and Mystery
… Elisa Nabel ’11 spent the summer of 2008 in Rwanda doing medical research, but … traditional African drumming and dance, an interest of hers (she is part of a group that performs African …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Context: Simpsons Writer John Swartzwelder on Comedy
… This is the second post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
… Could an artificial neural network connected to the brain of a living animal improve its performance on a task, such as the ability to find food? A strength of biologically based intelligence is that it performs well …
Issue: March-April 2024
People in the News
… Mr. Smith Stays in Cambridge The retirement of Richard A. Smith '46 from the Harvard … Although Henry Rosovsky '53, Ph.D. '59, Geyser University Professor emeritus, has stepped down as planned (and been …
Changing the World
… Employing the mantra “It’s Not Too Late to Change the World,” some members of the class of 1973 have formed a nonprofit organization to address …
Issue: September-October 2018
Elevating Education (The Ph.D.)
… On the heels of its doctor of education leadership (Ed.L.D.) degree, inaugurated to … prepared to effect sweeping changes in K-12 education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is joining …
Howard Gardner Receives 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
… naming educational innovator Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, the recipient of the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences , the Fundación …