Academics
CMES
Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies was one of the first centers to receive funding under Title VI of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's National Defense Education Act, which provided federal funding to educational programs that sought to benefit national security and U.S. economic interests.
Bureau of Study Counsel
The Bureau of Study Counsel was founded in 1947, after an influx of World War II veterans, to support their academic and personal adjustments to college.
Serhii Polkhii
Serhii Plokhii is a Ukranian-American historian and professor at Harvard College specializing in the history of Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and Cold War studies.
Faculty Council Hears Plans for Allston Scheduling
The Faculty Council heard preliminary plans for course scheduling at the new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences campus in Allston at its biweekly meeting Tuesday.
New Computer Science Professor Milind Tambe Aims for Social Impact
Milind Tambe has joined the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Computer Science faculty as a tenured professor this fall and will head the Center for Research on Computation and Society at SEAS.
Academic Resource Center
The new Academic Resource Center is located at 1414 Massachusetts Avenue. The completed center is now open to students from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Peer Advising Fellows Instructed to Limit Academic Advising
Harvard College’s Advising Programs Office has instructed Peer Advising Fellows to not offer directive academic advice to freshmen and to instead refer students to their freshman advisers — a change some veteran PAFs say limits their ability to help freshmen.
Harvard College Rolls Out Free Peer Tutoring at New Academic Center
Harvard will now offer free peer tutoring to undergraduates — a change which comes with the launch of the College’s Academic Resource Center.
Harvard to Close Bureau of Study Counsel in December, Open New Academic Support Center
The College will open a new center for academic support in August and close the Bureau of Study Counsel in December, Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh announced in an email to students Monday.
Harvard Undergrad, Professor Identify First Interstellar Meteor, Say It Could Support Theories of Life in Other Solar Systems
Astronomy Department Chair and Professor Avi Loeb teamed up with an undergraduate to identify the first interstellar meteor ever reported in our solar system.
Private School Graduates Overrepresented Among Phi Beta Kappa Inductees
The students elected to Harvard’s chapter of the national academic society Phi Beta Kappa each year boast near-perfect grades and glowing recommendations. Most of them also hold diplomas from wealthy private high schools or well-funded public ones.
Phi Beta Kappa Welcomes 24 New Harvard Juniors
Twenty-four College juniors learned Wednesday afternoon of their selection as inductees into the Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society.
Quincy Residents Make Up Nearly A Third of Harvard Rhodes and Marshall Winners from Past Decade
Over the past 10 years, 60 Harvard College graduates have received Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. Nineteen of those students lived in Quincy House, a number more than double the next highest number of winners from a single house.
Faculty Council Approves Proposal to Retain Shopping Week
The Faculty Council voted to endorse a proposal to retain “shopping week” until at least 2022 at its biweekly meeting Wednesday. The committee publicly released its report Wednesday, outlining what they viewed as key benefits of the current system as well as changes that could eliminate the drawbacks of that system.
