Academics
With Investigation Complete, Harvard Plans a Cheating Scandal Announcement
Harvard has delivered verdicts to all of the approximately 125 students ensnared in the Government 1310 cheating scandal and plans to make an announcement about the results of the investigation near the start of the spring semester, according to a Harvard spokesperson.
Flyby Presents: The Gen Ed Course Trailer Awards
In honor of the Academy, we at Flyby have created awards to recognize this semester's best course trailers. Check out these videos while you’re procrastinating packing those suitcases.
Talking Under the Trees
Andrew Richardson, an assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, and Donald H. Pfister, a systematic biology professor, created a course trailer to promote their class Science of Living Systems 25: "Trees, Forests, and Global Change."
Grades are up!
If you filled out the CUE for all your classes, you can find them at https://apps2.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/onlinesrec/.
For Creative Concentrators, A New Happily Ever After
Folklore and mythology recently joined English; literature; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; and visual and environmental studies in offering some concentrators the option of working on a creative project as a senior thesis.
Pre-Term Planning Data Shows Increased Interest in CS
Pre-Term Planning data for Spring 2012 indicates an increased interest in computer science classes and suggests that a few courses with capped enrollments will be competitive.
See Next Semester's Pre-Term Planning Data
Flyby brings you all the numbers you want to see regarding pre-term planning. Open this Google doc to find out how many students registered for every single spring course available through the pre-term planning tool.
Students in Harvard/NEC Program Juggle Music and Academics
While many Harvard students juggle academics and extracurricular activities, a select number of Harvard undergraduates deal with the additional challenge of attending two colleges at once.
Georgetown To Join EdX
Georgetown University is the latest institution to join edX, an online education venture started by Harvard and MIT, announced Georgetown President John J. Degioia yesterday.
Unreal Memories
Artist Hans Tutschku, the Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, composed a new sound installation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carpenter Center. The installation, Unreal Memories, brings voices from many different cultures together in a sound clip that is projected from the rooftop of the Carpenter Center.
Wellesley To Join EdX
EdX, an online educational platform launched by Harvard and MIT in May, announced today that Wellesley College will be the first liberal arts institution to partner with the virtual learning venture.
