Academics
The Other Harvard-Yale Game
As the Crimson and the Bulldogs faced off on the football field on Saturday, other Harvardians and Yalies were battling in the boardroom.
The 2013 Phi Beta Kappa 48
Phi Betta Kappa Fall 48 is announced for Class of 2013, alphabetical by House:
New Concentration Offerings Attract Pre-Professionals
While Harvard’s new concentration options seemingly lend themselves to distinct career paths for undergraduates, professors insist that they are not purely pre-professional and do align with the College’s liberal arts philosophy.
Today in Photos (11/07/2012)
Photos from the November 7, 2012 edition of the Harvard Crimson's daily newspaper.
Registrar Digitalizes Midterm Grade Submission System
The College has overhauled the system used by faculty members to report their students’ midterm progress grades. A new online portal was launched earlier this month to allow professors to submit progress reports for struggling students to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ registrar’s office at any point during the term.
Ad Board's Advising System Faces Criticism
As the massive Government 1310 scandal places unprecedented demands on the resident deans who are responsible for guiding their own students through the process and deliberating on the fates of dozens of others, critics say that the resident dean’s contradictory role is brought into even sharper focus.
First Day of School for Harvard Online
Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I” attracts 722 students to Sanders Theater. Its online equivalent, Computer Science 50x, has drawn more than 100 times that number of students.
College Fills Gaps With New Concentration Offerings
If it had not been for the new architecture studies track in the History of Art and Architecture department, Benjamin Lopez ’15 would have been “pretty ready to transfer” out of Harvard.
University of Texas Joins Harvard-Founded edX
The University of Texas announced its participation in the Harvard- and MIT-founded online education venture edX at a press conference Monday morning.
Chef Gives Science and Cooking Lecture
Veteran guest and James Beard Award-winning chef José Andrés returned to deliver a talk which pushed the audience to think critically about food and “find the truth behind things that you learn.”
Gov 1310 No Longer Listed for Next Semester
Government 1310: “Introduction to Congress,” the class at the center of Harvard’s largest cheating scandal in recent memory, is no longer listed as a spring 2013 course in the course catalog.
IPad Course Materials
Students in Intermediate Modern Hebrew class learn about verb conjugation using the digital textbook that senior preceptor Irit Aharony has created for the course. Harvard has provided iPads to students for use throughout the semester.
Hebrew Class Uses iPads For Teaching, Learning
In this fall’s Modern Hebrew 120a: “Intermediate Modern Hebrew” course, digital apps and iPads have replaced paper flash cards and textbooks. In collaboration with Harvard’s Academic Technology Group, Irit Aharony, the head of Harvard’s Modern Hebrew Studies Program, has created a digital textbook on iBooks for use in her second-year language class.
Homeless Invited to Speak in Lecture
A typical Harvard course may host renowned authors, environmentalists, and politicians from around the world, but the speakers featured in Thursday’s Sociology 149: “Inequality, Poverty, and Wealth in Comparative Perspective” spend most of their time on the streets right outside the campus gates.
Art for the Ages
This week, FM emailed professors to find out which artistic work in their field they think most shaped history.
Football Team Responds to Cheating Allegations
Limited by privacy laws and a desire for team privacy, Murphy provided few specifics or details about the investigation into alleged cheating in last spring’s Government 1310: “Introduction to Congress” class and its possible effect on the Harvard football team, but Murphy defended the character of his team as a whole.
CS 50 Office Hours To Move To Annenberg
Starting this semester, Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I” office hours will be held in Annenberg to facilitate interaction between students and the course staff.
Administration Makes Changes To Cope with Cheating Scandal
College administrators are bringing in extra help and shifting their priorities as they seek to balance new responsibilities stemming from Harvard’s sweeping cheating investigation with their normal job duties in University Hall.
Past Tense: Radcliffe, Cheating, and the Honor Code
The awkward wedge between the Harvard and Radcliffe policies was centered on the Radcliffe honor system that governed student life at the women’s college.
Ad Board Reform of 2010 Led to More Options, More Dishonesty Cases
Due to a change approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May 2010, the Ad Board has additional, arguably less severe, ways to punish students which it may use for anyone found guilty of illicit collaboration in Government 1310.
Professors Emphasize Collaboration Policies on First Day of Shopping Week
Students muddling through their first day of shopping period encountered a change when several professors chose to highlight collaboration policies while introducing their courses this Tuesday.
New Dean To Address Academic Integrity
Just days before Harvard announced its most sweeping plagiarism investigation in recent memory, the College tapped Brett Flehinger, resident dean of Lowell House and a lecturer in the history department, to fill a recently-created position in the College administration addressing academic integrity.
GSAS Appoints New Dean
Meng will replace classics professor Richard J. Tarrant, who has served as interim dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science’s graduate school since Dean Allan M. Brandt stepped down in February due to poor health.