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Learning, and Teaching, As Peers
… How can professional teachers and educational institutions integrate peer learning into their pedagogy? This was the subject of the eighth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and …
Football: Harvard 24, Lafayette 14
… There were 7,177 people at the Stadium on Saturday to watch … give or take 100,000, than the throng lining the banks of the nearby Charles River to view the Head of the Charles regatta. Picking up on the theme of the day, …
Curriculum Queries
… Highlights of a faculty symposium on the most pressing issues in undergraduate education Several … on the public aims of higher education, leaving the enterprise vulnerable to analysis only in terms of its direct …
Opera Reimagined
… On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior …
Bringing Minds and Money to Bear on Teaching
… Six days before the public launch of The Harvard Campaign, in which the … the use of MOOCs (Coursera and Udacity, two MOOC enterprises, were created by Stanford faculty members). He …
Overseer and Director Candidates
… Ballots (mailed out by April 1) must be received at the indicated address by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 15 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote …
Issue: May-June 2018
A Scourge Remembered
… Her voice reaches out across the decades, from a time when people still wrote letters. … when entire hospitals dedicated themselves to the treatment of tuberculosis, and when Americans would disappear to those … size. At one time, 60 percent of Colorado’s population comprised TB patients and the friends and relatives who had come …
Issue: March-April 2009
Yesterday's News
… Massachusetts Hall is refitted as a lecture hall to relieve the crowded conditions in Sever and Emerson Halls. 1920 … French government presents Harvard with a large collection of artifacts from the recent war—guns, bayonets, cavalry … the exhibition room.” 1925 The renovation and restoration of Massachusetts Hall is complete, following a fire a year …
On Undergraduate Education
… for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty … new programs in the life sciences; we continue the process of acquisition and planning for Allston; and, for the first … faculty by any measure, and each of our classes comprises a remarkable group of young people drawn from across …
Issue: July-August 2003
Cherry Murray Honored by White House
… Physicist Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Armstrong professor …
“To Think and to Question”
… its liberal-arts education, which contrasted sharply with the engineering training held up as the pinnacle of achievement by many Indian families. When the Indian government would not pay for his education, Harvard offered him a full scholarship. He concentrated in film …
President Bok's Annual Report
… to find myself again in Massachusetts Hall after an absence of 15 years. Although the University was..." Ladies and Gentlemen , I have the … to Harvard’s alumni, who, to no experienced observer’s surprise, have remained exceptionally loyal to the University …
Radcliffe Recruits
… A pair of senior faculty appointments unveiled shortly before the beginning of the academic year underscores the intellectual ambitions …
Issue: November-December 2001
Why Some Citizens Reject Science
… For many americans, the wave of disinformation and defiance of medical authority that arrived with the coronavirus was …
Issue: September-October 2021
Signals for Change
… a crowd, mostly prominent Anglos, in San Francisco. “Some of the city halls around the state were shut down and more … control and AIDS among Latinos to the inflationary rise in tortilla prices. Linea Abierta (“Open Line”), the …
Issue: May-June 2007