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Differences of Opinion on Online Courses
… build and launch massive open online courses (MOOCs)—and other would-be contenders approach the field—evidence and … about how best to use such courses, the experience of learning this way, and possible applications of the … are a great unequalizer when it comes to teachers,” giving rise to a list of online celebrity professors who come to …
Untangling the Brain
… Modern neuroscience rests on the assumption that our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and … a conversation, or recall a moment in childhood, a pattern of activity in our neurons makes such feats possible. It's a … neuroscience, the next question is how that activity gives rise to thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and responses to the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Climbing the Hill
… In the fall of 2001, students supporting a "living wage" for Harvard's janitors and other low-paid employees held rallies to keep the pressure on … Inman Square, Cambridge, neighborhood. Photograph courtesy of Jarret Barrios The young politician was Jarrett Barrios …
Issue: May-June 2003
Opening Exercises, Class of 2011
… President Drew Gilpin Faust welcomed first-year students at the College in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, … a ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, September 9. Audio of the remarks by Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and by President Faust, …
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
… No celebration for the Office for the Arts (OFA) could possibly capture the … education.” Wu’s piano grew more intense and, during the reprise, Vandermel approached the edge of the stage like a pop …
Faust on Higher Education: Knowledge and “The Living of a Life”
… Harvard President Drew Faust, speaking at Robsham Theater at Boston College and receiving that institution’s … Sesquicentennial Medal, used the occasion to make some of her most expansive remarks on the role and potential of … and engineering, and for technologically enabled new enterprises—witness the fledgling iLab and the president's …
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
… Leslie Jamison ’04 spent the summer after her freshman year at home in Los Angeles … or speak, and she saw no one except her mother. The works of William Faulkner “became a companion during that very … recalls. She became especially interested in his depictions of sibling relationships, which have been described in terms …
Issue: March-April 2025
Here Comes the Sun
… The sun is shining, temps are rising, and normalcy seems … miles away from stress when you’re riding waves courtesy of Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Company, which offers group surf lessons and rentals ( …
Issue: July-August 2021
“Outside the Harvard Bubble”
… Julie Yen ’14 wasn’t keen on skipping a semester’s worth of classes at Harvard to study abroad. Turns out, she didn’t need to. Yen was one of 20 undergraduates in the inaugural class of the Harvard College Europe Program …
The Morning Exercises, Virtual Again
… and a national reckoning with continuing racial injustices, the Harvard community carried on through a unique academic year, closing with a week of online class days, degree conferrals, and more. Two of … and in a nod to the scholarship at the heart of the enterprise, the annual PBK teaching awards—based on nominations …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Harvard College Admission Yield Rises to 81 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that nearly 81 percent of students admitted to the class of 2016, enrolling this coming August, had decided … themselves as undecided—a fraction that, perhaps, will rise as those new Harvard undergraduates take in unexplored …
“Risk Forgiveness”
… who spoke at Morning Prayers last academic year about the 1965 voting-rights march in Selma and about the diversity of the Harvard community , opened the 2015 fall term by … 2 to talk about diversity again—this time in the shadow of the lawsuit now challenging Harvard’s admissions …
Expanding the Mind
… M.D. ’66, and his wife, Susan Gottsegen Neisuler, joined the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) a decade ago, it soon became “the centerpiece of our lives,” he says. “It is not only a place to study and teach, but a community of enduring friendships, group trips abroad, music and art …
Issue: September-October 2014
The Forgotten Modernist
… If there’s one name associated with the reputation of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the cradle of American modern …
Issue: September-October 2007
The Real Dan Fenn
… Due to errors at the HAA, the entry about HAA Award winner Dan Huntington … the November-December issue contained flaws. In fact, Fenn, of Lexington, Massachusetts, has been a class secretary … 1946 and a former president and executive commitee member of the Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries. An …
Issue: January-February 2005