Academics
College Prepares New Course Planning Tool
In an effort to better predict class sizes each semester, College administrators are hoping to implement new course planning requirements for undergraduates next year.
Leading Teams
Professor Richard Hackman, one of the world’s leading experts on group and organizational behavior, talks about his research on team dynamics, self-managing groups, and leadership in the Barker Center yesterday.
With Gen Ed’s Rise, Core Program Loses Assistant Director
Assistant Director of the Core Program Charles G. Ruberto ’88, the administration’s primary contact for students seeking information about the Core and for faculty teaching Core courses, announced in an e-mail Friday that he will be leaving for a new position outside Harvard.
Thesis Writers Utilize Break
While many Harvard students spent their spring breaks relaxing and traveling, some seniors remained on campus or went home last week to work on their senior theses, which were due after vacation.
New Gen Ed Course Will Explore the Science of Cooking
Next fall, some students fulfilling the Science of the Physical Universe General Education requirement may conclude lectures with a taste test rather than a pop quiz if they enroll in a new course entitled “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.”
Today in Photos (3/24/10)
Linda Fang performs folk tales and other stories rooted in Chinese history and culture at the Sackler Museum.
Recent Grad's Thesis Wows Michael Lewis
For most people, the idea of writing a senior thesis is so daunting that they don’t even bother; for others, it’s a chance to show their community what all of their hard work and research has come down to. But for Anna K. Barnett-Hart ’09, who is currently a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, her senior thesis resulted not only with honors in economics at graduation but also with an acknowledgment in author Michael Lewis’s latest book, “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.”
SEAS Creates New Concentration
In response to burgeoning student interest over the past few years, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will create a new biomedical engineering concentration, marking the start of the school’s ambitions to expand existing tracks into independent concentrations.
Two New Harvard Sites Make it Online
Harvard students have been launching Web sites left and right over the past few weeks. Here are two for your procrastination pleasure.
Final Exam Schedule Posted
While finals are still months away, the Registrar's Office has posted the exam schedule on their Web site.
EdCom Votes to Advance Advising Website
The Education Committee of the Undergraduate Council voted yesterday to create a student-run advising website to allow students to seek informal concentration advice from peers.
Schedule Change Amplifies Stress Among Students
College administrators attribute the unanticipated stress of the compressed semester to a lack of planning by both students and faculty, though proposals for rearranging vacation days in the fall semester are still up for discussion.
Lamont's New Media Lab
Lamont has a new Multimedia Lab offering students a wide range of software to help them produce multimedia assignments. Located in Lamont A-20, the lab is open the same hours as Lamont.
Athena Lao
Athena Lao looks to the future and sees grand projects for the Ethnic Studies secondary
Today in Photos (2/22/10)
Photos published in the Monday, February 22, 2010 edition of the Harvard Crimson.
Drop It Like It's Hot!
Are you deeply regretting having chosen that philosophy course with 200+ pages of reading a week? Are you wondering what the heck you were thinking when you decided to add a fifth course onto your workload?
Kremlin on the Charles?
First, Der Spiegel accuses some Harvard students of being "abstinence apostle[s];” then, Newsweek accuses the faculty of harboring “general disdain” towards faith? Is it a case of being “damned if we do, and damned if we don’t”—or is it the case that we are just damned period?