Faculty News
Hauser's New Book
Marc D. Hauser, pictured in a Crimson file photo, will release a new book entitled “Evilicious: Cruelty = Desire + Denial” on Oct. 15.
MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winner To Join Music Faculty
Harvard University will be adding the winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant to its music faculty in January of next year when renowned jazz musician and scholar Vijay Iyer takes up his post as the University’s first Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.
Hauser Studio Equipment
Equipment in the partially completed Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Digital Teaching and Learning Studio in the concourse level of Widener Library.
Hauser Studio Equipment
Equipment in the partially completed Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Digital Teaching and Learning Studio in the concourse level of Widener Library.
Hauser Studio
Equipment in the partially completed Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Digital Teaching and Learning Studio in the concourse level of Widener Library.
Hauser Studio
Equipment in the partially completed Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Digital Teaching and Learning Studio in the concourse level of Widener Library.
Video Production Studio Supporting Digital Pedagogy To Open in Widener
The new space, which will open next month on the concourse level of Widener Library, will aim to provide faculty with an opportunity to create digital material for Harvard courses online and on campus.
The New FAS Librarian
In her new role as FAS Librarian, Sarah E. Thomas will lead library systems that fall under FAS, such as the Harvard College Library.
Recently Appointed Harvard Library Vice President To Also Head FAS Libraries
In her new role as FAS Librarian, Sarah E. Thomas will take the reins of libraries that fall under FAS, such as the Harvard College Library.
Matthew Platt, Instructor at Center of Cheating Scandal, Now Off the Tenure Track
It is unclear whether the decision to remove Platt from the tenure track is connected to his involvement in the Government 1310 case.
Off the Tenure Track
Assistant professor Matthew B. Platt, who taught the introductory congress course at the center of Harvard’s 2012 cheating scandal, has not been promoted to associate professor, the New York Times first reported on Monday.
Summers's Colleagues Criticize Politicization of Fed Chair Selection Process
In the aftermath of Lawrence H. Summers’s withdrawal from consideration for the position of Federal Reserve chairman, several Harvard faculty members condemned the politicization of the confirmation process and expressed dismay over the decision.
MCB80.1x Brings Innovation to the edX Platform
David D. Cox ’00, an assistant professor of MCB and computer science, is leading MCB80.1x, a new online counterpart to the Harvard classroom course MCB 80: “Neurobiology of Behavior,” as part of Harvard’s continually growing involvement in edX.
21 Professors Will Advise Smith in College Dean Search
The new committee is tasked with combing through a list of recommended candidates solicited from faculty members, narrowing the roster of candidates, and, ultimately, consulting with the FAS Dean on finalists for the position.
SEAS Dean Appointed To Advise Energy Secretary
Cherry A. Murray, Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2009, has been appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, the U.S. Department of Energy announced in August.
Harvard Affiliates Discuss Syria
As Congress prepares to vote on whether or not to take action against Syria, Harvard affiliates warn that given how strongly the Obama administration has endorsed a military strike, the United States risks losing credibility on the international stage if it does not act.
Introductory Humanities Courses Aim To Fill Gap
Introductory courses have long been the backbone of many a Harvard student’s undergraduate experience. But while science concentrators enroll in Life Sciences 1a and economics concentrators opt to take Economics 10, students interested in the humanities have not had the same opportunity to take a broad introductory course.
Students from U.S. and India Top HarvardX Registrants List
New course enrollment data released by HarvardX last week ranked India as the country with the second most enrollment in the University’s new set of online courses, with the United States capturing a plurality of total registrants last year.
Smith Believes He Opened Email Detailing Search He Has Claimed No Knowledge Of
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith said through a spokesperson Wednesday that he believes he opened but did not closely read an email detailing plans for a controversial search that he has said and continues to maintain he had no knowledge of until six months after it was conducted.
The Keating Report
The full text of Boston attorney Michael B. Keating's 28-page report detailing a chronology of events surrounding the email search scandal.
Keating Report Corroborates Administrators’ Account of Email Search Scandal
A highly anticipated independent report commissioned by the University concludes that Harvard officials did not knowingly break faculty email privacy policy when they secretly probed resident deans’ email accounts last September in an effort to plug a leak of information connected to the Government 1310 cheating scandal.
IIT Bombay To Be First Indian Institution To Join edX
The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, agreed to join the edX consortium Tuesday, marking the virtual learning platform’s first expansion into India and its seventh into Asia.
Faculty Reports Call for Solutions to Predicaments Facing Humanities Scholarship
A set of three reports released Thursday by a faculty committee call for a vigorous response to the decline of humanistic study at Harvard, including the establishment of new curricular offerings, an internship program, a new undergraduate humanities center similar to the Harvard Innovation Lab, and a new humanities-minded organization roughly modelled after the Institute of Politics.