SEAS
Harvard Official: A- is Median Grade and A Most Common Across All Three FAS Divisions and SEAS
The new information challenges the belief held by some that grade inflation is less prevalent in courses in the sciences than in the humanities.
Deans' Design Challenge to Address Growing Population
With the world’s population expected to grow exponentially in coming years, the Harvard Innovation Lab is turning to students for solutions to the sociopolitical and environmental problems that population expansion may pose.
In Light of Sequester Cuts, SEAS to Look Elsewhere for Funding
The National Science Foundation is expected to reduce the number of grants for university research from 11,000 to 10,000 per year after this spring’s federal sequester. How this downsizing will affect Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—which receives 80 percent of its federal monies from NSF, according to school administrators—is still unclear, causing the school to anticipate cuts and to look to finding alternative funding sources.
Faculty Hear From SEAS Deans, Faculty Council, and Professors of Religion at Monthly Meeting
Two deans from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences laid out priorities and concerns on behalf of colleagues involved in the planning process for the school’s eventual move to Allston at the monthly meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tuesday afternoon.
With Space and Personnel at a Premium, SEAS To Increase Faculty by Nearly 30 Percent
Facing constraints in manpower and space, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is set to make twenty new tenure-track hires and is preparing for its building projects in Allston, SEAS Dean Cherry A. Murray told The Crimson in an interview this week.
Degrees Offered at SEAS
SEAS offers new two-year master's degree for Computational Science and Engineering
SEAS To Offer New Two-Year Master's Degree
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced on Friday that it will offer a two-year Master of Engineering in the field beginning in fall 2014.
Hanspeter Pfister To Lead Institute for Applied Computational Sciences
Computer science professor Hanspeter Pfister was named director of the Institute for Applied Computational Sciences at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences last Monday. Pfister is taking the place of physics professor Efthimios Kaxiras, who has led the Institute since its founding in 2010.
NSF Approves $20 Million Grant for SEAS-Based Research Center
The Center for Integrated Quantum Materials at Harvard will not occupy a physical space at the University, but rather serve as an intellectual group that comprises many top researchers from collaborating institutions.
Harvard Scientists Build Sound-Producing Artificial Muscle
The speaker, made of rubber membrane sandwiched between layers of gel, uses electrical charges carried by ions, not electrons, to produce sounds.
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.
Fighting the Blaze
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in Somerville July 25. The fire damaged five apartment buildings and left two firefighters injured.
After Somerville Fire, An Outpouring of Support for Displaced Harvard Intern
Carine Margez, a graduate student from France working at Harvard for the summer, lost nearly all her belongings when a fire swept through her Somerville apartment on July 25.
After the Fire
A desk in a Somerville apartment lays covered in rubble just hours after a fire broke out early in the morning of July 25. Carine Margez, a graduate student from France working at Harvard for the summer, was allowed to return to her apartment later that morning to take this photograph.
SEAS, Crossing Over
Faculty members and students alike have already begun expressing concern regarding SEAS’ ability to remain integrated in a liberal arts education from its future home across the river.
Concentration Satisfaction: Class of 2012
As freshmen enter the second week of Advising Fortnight, Flyby presents a complete set of data from the Class of 2012's concentration satisfaction ratings. For all freshmen looking to narrow down the list of potential concentrations, sophomores or juniors curious about their chosen concentrations, and seniors reflecting on their undergraduate careers, here are the stats from last year's graduating seniors on how satisfied they were with their respective concentrations. Check out our four interactive graphs showing overall satisfaction rates among Humanities, Natural Sciences, SEAS, and Social Sciences concentrators in the Class of 2012.
Overall Satisfaction with SEAS Concentrations among Class of 2012
Graduating SEAS concentrators in the Class of 2012 rated their overall satisfaction with their respective concentrations on a scale of one to five.
As SEAS Moves to Allston, Administrators Contemplate Schedule Changes
Administrators and faculty are poised to consider changes to the daily academic schedule following the announcement this February that Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will move to Allston in as little as five years.
SEAS Allston
Computer science professor Stuart M. Shieber ‘81 speaks with architectual consultant Stephen J. Erwin about the design of the SEAS Allston campus at an open house event in Maxwell Dworkin Monday afternoon.